PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Synesthesia, Causality, Thomas Hobbes
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Our society is not a hobbesian leviathan because our country operates through 3 distinct branches. What to look for while reading hume: Foundationalism: in order to be sure of what you assert, you must base it on some solid foundations (our reason) Empiricists believe that everything we know stems from our senses. What exactly is hume"s attitude to reason. Easy and obvious: addresses human agents (give advice, exhort them to be better) Most of our disagreements stem from misunderstanding. The accurate and abstruse method of philosophy aids the easy and obvious. Two parts to science: observation of phenomena, devising theories to explain them. Hume"s alternative to the special causal principle: the idea of god comes from re ecting on the operations of my own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness and wisdom. First argument for hume"s empiricism: all thoughts can be deconstructed to show their origin in the real world.
