PHILOS 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Speedstep, Natural Philosophy
4 Feb 2017
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Review: by principle 6, you understand his basic argument, we think we know there are materials things in space by means of the senses, principles 7 -24, he reiterates these points. More arguments to establish there cannot be material things. Wants to move people back to religion. Two principle foundations: according to berkley, modern scientific philosophy was too materialistic. It leaves god out of account of nature, by saying the phenomena are the effects of material bodies moving through natural forces: skepticism: the fact we walk the way of ideas is why we move away from religion. Skepticism causes lack of belief in religion, so no faith. If we are int hat position, then we have no reason to believe anything. They say you need to take a leap of faith to believe. Berkley says modern philosophy gives us irreligion and.
