HISTORY 3S03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Experiment, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Neohumanism
2 Dec 2016
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Enlightenment era physiology and scientific systems of exercise. Great (cid:858)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272)(cid:859) thi(cid:374)kers: descartes, locke, hobbes, rousseau. Natural philosophical thought focusing on the laws of nature and the natural world. Empiricism: observation/experiment (not theory, sensory data as valid information, knowledge from experience. Society to be structured and operated in accordance with the operations of natural law: natural law was accessible to man in a way that divine law was not. The body: viewed in mechanistic terms, machine operating according to natural laws operations open to being examined empirically, numbered, weighted and measured. Codifying laws of the universe through mathematical formulae. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathemtica book: book of his mathematical formulas. All objects in motion in a straight line (or at rest) will remain in motion in a straight line (or remain at rest) unless acted upon by a force. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Inalienable rights of man: worked on the creation of declaration of human rights.
