PHI 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Subjective Idealism, Scientific Method, Classical Liberalism
18 Jul 2020
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Empiricists like locke argued that you could only know from experience. Empiricism is a philosophical theory that considers experience and sensory perception as the best way to the truth of things. Empirical thought has roots in classical antiquity, especially in the work of aristotle and other. In fact, it takes its name from the. Greek word empeirik s, equivalent to "guide by experience". At that time, the empirical was understood as the useful and technical knowledge of doctors, architects and artisans in general, as opposed to the theoretical and inapplicable knowledge obtained from the contemplation of life. However, empiricism emerged as a philosophical movement in the modern age, the end of a thought process started in the late middle ages. At that time the new philosophical theories and the scientific revolution were renewing western thought, proposing two research methods (descartes and bacon), and two models of philosophical thought: empiricism and rationalism.
