NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deferent And Epicycle, Natural Philosophy
15 Apr 2016
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Is distinguished from religious or supernatural explanations of events, aims at understanding cause & is different from scientia & technology. Scientia - science, commonly used in ancient times, to us means the knowledge of causes and (technology) the application. (why and how) - usually crafts based knowledge (ex. masonry) Natural philosophy for the ancient greeks means study of causation that usually didn"t have any application, they were interested in the how to/why (especially around crafts, ex. how to heal) In order to develop knowledge about nature, it needs to solely for the natural (something found within the normal world and does not rely on the influence of the gods) reasons, exclude the supernatural (4 river civilizations) Natural philosophy didn"t rely on technology for its development. Extremely popular because he wrote a lot, but all of his writing wasn"t just his (corpus) More of a concept than a real person. Natural philospphy - knowing that something works in a certain way.
