PHI 2394 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Roots, Episteme, Bacon
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Mythology or fate described the way of the world: mythology and fate are descriptive rather than argumentative. What determines knowledge/science: evidence, good reasons, support, good argument. This philosophy and science united and defined by same method: argumentation. Ethics ethos, custom/habit = norm: emphasis on group thought vs. individuality. Plato was a student of socrates and a teacher to aristotle. Was a mathematician and rationalist: thought knowledge should be like math. Not about numbers but the concept of numbers. Not about things but the essence of things. Knowledge has two branches: rationalism logical, absolute, necessary, timeless, universal. Regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge: empiricism sensible, contingent, particular, content sensitive. Comes from experience (senses) but can be deceiving. Techn is a term derived from ancient greece which means: Seeing an animal in the distance: art, craft, skill, vocation, doing something, not understanding.