HIST 1124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: René Descartes, Tabula Rasa, Philosophes
4 Feb 2019
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The scienti c revolution was the precursor to the enlightenment. Idea of the possibility of social science: predictive statement of behaviours ( such as political science, economics ) A mathematician , also a philosopher who was tormented by what is real and what is fake. The only thing he knows is the fact of his own existence "i think, therefore i am" Cartesian dualism - which states that there are two kinds of foundation: mental and body , his philosophy states that the mental can exist outside of the body, and the body cannot think. Age of reason - fundamentally shift in conciseness. Theory of knowledge essay concerning human understanding . Criticize descartes idea of innate ideas - people are born with ideas. He argues that people are born with tabula rasa - born in a blank slate , the things we acquire during the course of our life.
