PHIL1070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Christian Ethics, Role Of Christianity In Civilization, Inductive Reasoning
19 Mar 2015
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1: bacon is trying to make us change the way we think about knowledge, history is driven by knowledge and power (see text, knowledge used to be thought of in terms of purposes. How we should live life and our purpose to god: move from final cause to efficient cause, to find these causes bacon stresses observation but not mere observation but. Experimentation: we can fix our thinking through experimentation, deduction reasoning vs. inductive reasoning explain. Induction- not simply looking at nature as it is but by intervening, organizing and reconstructing. Laws/principles, technology inventing: deduction- work backwards, power= bacon wanted to make human life materially better. He thought if intellectuals could have new approaches to learning there will be real progress to human life. 2: machiavelli addresses the tension that exists between christian ethics and. Both are true and both are good: christian ethics- focuses on the individual/soul. Moral state in relation to god and one another.
