ESTB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Invisible Hand, Hari Seldon, Guardians Of The Universe
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Humans are the measure of all things: we have to measure everything inside our heads. Vitruvian man: the different proportions of things. All the scale is based on that we are the ultimate end: everything was created for us. Protagoras: the measure of things is us but it is how we perceive it. Science is the great reveller of truth: nomena is the truth ; it is reality. Biologist: 1. they world back then was to you only a country therefore only like 7000000 km^2 which is pretty small, 2. The world is fixed . you just exist not really worrying about anything: 3. The world keeps coming back on itself flat world dumb ; its cyclic. Cycles are constantly going over and over again you teach your children and so on; the 4 seasons come in cycles: 4. lyell and darwin.
