ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Scientific Revolution, Solipsism, Simile
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Purely empirical observation is key to nature. Use your senses opposite would be rationalism. Each of the 4 earthly elements has its natural place. Causality: 4 causes (explanations); material, formal, efficient, and final (telos) ( e. g. final cause: why are we on earth?) 3 souls: vegetative /nutrient (plant), sensitive (animal) and rational (human) soul or mind. Everything wants to be near its natural place. Colors, odors and sounds have a real physical existence. In the act of destroying they created the mind-body problem. Aristotle: the world is as we perceive it. There is no gab between appearance and reality. Observation is key to nature, what you observe is what there is. Galileo, descartes: there is an immense gab between reality and appearance. Reality hides behind the appearance --> we should look for rational cues. G and d: by abstract mathematical thinking = mathematical (or classical) science.
