KP141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Everyman, Analytic Geometry, Unbridled
24 Mar 2018
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3 human creations change europe (world) socially and politically 16th c. Renaissance= evolution of humanism & attitude of limitless possibility. Questions about what is real and how come to know reality (aristotle) Investigate natural phenomena observation, experience and experiment (empirical method) Can observe through sense what is real and important. Understand all of life/reality through scienti c laws. Limited # of universal laws apply to everything. All 3: express all scienti c observations in precise mathematical terms empirical. Philosophers in the age od science: thomas hobbes (1588-1679) Apply ideas of mechanics to all life. All phenomena (including humans, emotions, thought) consist exclusively of particles of matter. Philopshers in the age of science renee descartes (1596-1650) Father of analytic philosophy and analytic geometry. Prove philosophical truths in same manner as prove mathematical theorems (reason) Soul not part of machine (reject materialism) Can know (reject skepticism who believe you can never know anything or truth)
