HPS100H1 Final: HPS-100-Final-Exam-Notes
28 Oct 2016
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Plato: believed all things are made of triangles. Aristotle: earth was in the centre of the universe. Hippocrates: the human body is made of four bodily fluids. Tons of religion, you could pray to any type of god (i. e greek, egyptian etc. ) Knew the right answer but it was not available to him at the time. No science just myth until galileo who said the churchman were ignorant. With the help of others he liberated science from religion and created the scientific method. Now science is done with experiments, it is rational. Worldview: to refer to a system of beliefs that are interconnected in something like the way the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle are interconnected interconnected system of beliefs. Aristotelian worldview: a set of beliefs shared by a large segment of western culture largely based on his beliefs. Peripheral beliefs: can be replaced without much alteration in the overall worldview (ex.
