PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: First Principle, Exegesis

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

Always bring mediations book and course kit to class. 3 questions : what can i know? (epistemology=study of knowledge, what ought i do? (obligation and responsibility, what can i hope for? (eschatology) Medieval thinking: had some connection to the church, church wheeled huge impact on learning, held simultaneous beliefs on two fronts, source one: bible, source two: writing of plato and aristotle. Aristotle were speaking the truth other people would disagree: the did not have a method of proceeding or advancing knowledge exegetical) Descartes believed knowledge in a strict sense indubitable (in [not] dub [doubt] able [able] Knowledge that cannot be doubted by anyone, ever: knowledge is external. Descartes believed that if we are to undertake a revolution, get rid of the biblical, we need a new method. Conclusion: the only areas (up to that time) which in fact have achieved indubitable knowledge are arithmetic and geometry. Descartes believed that mathematics was given to us by god.