PHILOS 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ontogeny, Age Of Enlightenment, Ancient Greek Philosophy
14 Sep 2016
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Philosophe : a new kind of secular intellectual. Encyclop die, 1751-1772 (edited by diderot: with formal definitions and internal cross-references. Time: is eternal, geology led the way from us believing that the creation of the world occurred on a sunday afternoon in 4004bc to now believing that this theory is nonsense. Sensibilit : sensitivity as a primary quality of matter. Species transformationism (precursor to darwin"s theory of evolution) Th ophile bordeu (1722-1776: theory of sensitivity or irritability , to live is to feel . A body is not just a static lump. To have the quality of sensibilit is to be alive. Diderot: if you"re worried by the question which came first, the chicken or the egg", its because you suppose that animals were originally the same as they are now. We can no more tell what they were originally than what they will become . There is no miraculous origin of life.
