Philosophy 1362E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Empirical Evidence, Epicurus, Leading Question
10 Sep 2018
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Rationalists (descartes,socrates, plato, aristotle,) do not equal empiricists (locke, Rationalist logical, reason believe in our power of reason, realistic, believe that not everything comes from our experience. Empiricists think that everything comes from experience everything is real and can be known from sense experience (materialists, epicurus) What does it mean i think therefore i am"? which is the proof for the existence of god? what is real? ( according to descartes) Ground all of the tree into metaphysics the study of what is real/is there a god/ reality. Monday, january 25, 2016: radically doubted everything senses and mathematics, bad god playing with us. Sensing, walking, eating, ect (are we activities) The soul: a know-not-what ( are we the soul we have) What i sense is in the wax is what it is (colour, smell, touch) < secondary qualities: can"t give the answer to what is the wax if the qualities change. What is the substance? (what is the true nature)
