AHSS*1260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Intelligent Designer, Atomism, Erectile Dysfunction
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Humes prose betrays his passion on this course. Remarking on the obscurity, uncertainty, and error in most philosophies, he pinpoints the cause. The basic strategy of this war is to show what the human understanding is capable of. If we can show that superstition claims to know what non one can possibly know, then we undermine it in the most radical way. Is his conviction that is science of human nature is, in a certain way, fundamental. All of our intellectual endeavours are products of human understanding, and examination of that understanding should illumine them all. Such an inquiry well reveal how the mind works, what materials it has to operate on, and how knowledge in an area at all can be constructed. 2: descartes believes that the freedom and rationality of our mind exempts them all from kind of causal explanation provided for material bodies.
