DANC 010AD Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Philosophical Explanations, Regional Policy Of The European Union, Scientific Method
27 Jul 2020
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Soul is divine and independent of everything else. Human thoughts and feelings could not be studied by the natural sciences and fell under the remit of philosophy and religion. Innate knowledge that can be recovered by reasoning. Universe and all the matter in it as a big, sophisticated machine that could be studied by humans. Aristotelian explanations of nature depended of the perceived goals and aims of things. Sharp distinction between religion and science but views primarily benefited science. Soul could influence the body via the pineal gland found to be unconvincing. The formulation of the first laws of physics. Newton: things attract each other but the mass of the earth is so large that its pulling force (gravitational force) is much larger than those of objects on the earth. Described all motions on the basis of a handful of equations. Proposals to ground society in the natural sciences.
