PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Corpuscular Theory Of Light, Xenophanes, Monism
12 Sep 2018
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Rationalism : reason rules, what reasoning deems necessary really has to exist. The universe is reason through and through, a logical cosmos that ultimately makes good sense. Xenophanes - (later 6th century) - against popular images of the gods. Believes poets represent their gods as people like them mortals deem that the gods are begotten as they are, and have clothes like theirs, and voices and forms. Believes it be childish to think god as like us . Rationalism - reasonable understanding of what gods must be like. One god, the greatest among gods and men, neither in form like unto mortals nor in thought - doesn"t look or think like us, sees all over, thinks all over, hears all over. Without toil he moves all things by the thought of his mind. And he abides ever in the selfsame place, moving not at all; nor does it befit him to go about now hither now thither.
