PHIL 2140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Saurer, Humorism, Penicillin
17 Sep 2017
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We are talking about the earliest time in western philosophy (and all cultures philosophy). First came literature, then philosophy and then science. India, china and greece 2500 years ago (origin of religion and philosophy. China: (more ambiguous) laoz: (lao tzu) oz and tzu means master (so his name was lao) founder of daoism (taoism)604 bce: There is no absolute distinction just degrees of difference. Philosophy is kind of a middle ground between religion and science. Christianity it was argued that the human mind is not capable of understanding god. Tertullian i believe because it is absurd some religious people declare philosophy a heresy. (saint. Agustin says no he was the founder of christian philosophy and medieval philosophy. The development of mathematics (prediction) (repeatability) is what separated philosophy and science. You cannot have a public experiment in philosophy, but in science you get public verification when an experiment works.
