RHETOR 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hylas, Idolatry, Logical Positivism
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Philonous has carried out an immanent critique by taking on board hylas" positions and demonstrating that they are unreasonable, contradictory, or false, i. e. for the sake of argument, let"s assume what you"re saying is true . According to him, we cannot conceive of some matter that exists apart from ideas. Falls in love with a women referred to as maman . Born in calvinist geneva to a middle-class family. Articulates a new system of musical notation. Causes a scandal after the publication of his book emile (1762) His book the discourse on arts and sciences wins a competition on whether the arts and sciences worked to purify social mores. Medieval worldviews -> bacon -> descartes -> hobbes -> pascal -> berkeley -> rousseau. We use daston to coordinate these primary texts. Rhetoric as practical argumentation -> idolatry -> peter dear -> pettit -> theoretical vs. practical reasoning -> seduction/imagination -> hacking -> projection.
