Descartes
Descartes meditations.
-Philosophy and science is large. Roman Empire got conquered from inside and
Christianity and it became the official religion. It took over Europe.
Scholastic philosophy: shapes science of philosophy to teachings of church and Aristotle.
European mind loosens up.
-First thing printed was the bible and people read the bible.
Columbia discovered new land, continent.
· Was not in bible, never mentioned.
Martin Luther
· Bible was pope; all you need is faith to study in the bible.
Earth is a planet and the sun is the center.
· Age of inquisitions
· Disagreement with official teachings.
Experimental Science:
Enter Descartes, agrees with new science, way to approve knowledge.
· Wants to start revolution, and further it, complete it, put knowledge on new foundation.
· Called father of modern philosophy.
· Scientists were called natural philosophers
Descartes goal was to take scholastic philosophy and put it on new foundation.
· Purpose of meditations
He cannot antagonize the church
· Cannot do the way he wants to.
The foundation of knowledge was authority, church teachings and Aristotle.
New foundation is Reason.
Methodological doubt:
Uses doubting as a method
· Wants certainty.
Must use skeptism to see how far he can get.
Meditation 1
Presentàdoubt
· Physical senses, 5 senses
- We know they have deceived us.
Meditation 6: internal senses
Ex. Someone without an arm, they can feel that they still have it.
· We can’t trust something 100% if it’s deceived you once.
· Maybe everything is a dream
2+3=5 is it possible to doubt?
· Maybe there’s a god that’s been fooling us.
· Maybe evil demon, who systematic deceiving us, making us think we have memory, something is there
- Maybe everything is just an illusion.
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Post CommentCHIPMUNK
On April 29, 2011 at 1:35 am
interesting post