ACCT 210 Lecture 2:
4 Jul 2020
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Lecture 1: philosophy and the roots of science in the mind. Before development of science, the world was viewed as full of minds (souls, spirits) and magic. Greek science was the first step towards naturalistic" view of the world. E. g. , astronomy, aristotle"s biology, pythagorus /euclid (patterns and rules in math) Began to question what we really know about reality: E. g sticks appear bent when partially submerged in water. Parmendies (475 bc: stated that it is", reality of the universe was unchanging (being) Things changing (or becoming) was an illusion: there are equal truths that are unchanging however, experience changes conditionally. Rationalism (nativist view) - senses can be deceiving, thus, they should not be trusted. Heraclitus (500 bc) the only constant thing in the universe is change. There is less permanence in the world than there seems to be. E. g. stone is really a condensed ball of ever changing fire (like modern day knowledge of atoms etc. )
