WELD 174AB Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Isaac Beeckman, Pineal Gland, Natural Philosophy

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: WELD - Welding
• Course: WELD 174AB
• Professor: Yinjing

Document Summary

Task 3 objectivity/subjectivity body and mind. Descartes" philosophy of man - ren descartes (1596 1650), a french scholar and philosopher who lived in the netherlands. Published le monde" 10 years after his death out of fear of the church after observing their treatment of galileo (hours arrest 10 years) Aimed to create new philosophy, which would reconcile the church with natural philosophy. Dualism: sharp distinction between the immaterial mind and the material body. Just like plato descartes believed that the soul was divine and independent from everything else and therefor could not be studied in the same way as the body could. Soul has innate knowledge which you can reason your way to inwardly. Mechanistic view (heliocentric): view of the universe and all the matter in it (including the human body) as one big, sophisticated machine that could be studied by humans.