PHIL 150 Lecture 1: phil word
6 Feb 2019
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Descartes biography (continued: left holland for sweden in 1649 to instruct queen. Christina in philosophy: but the queen could only see him at 5am, making. Descartes wake up in the bitter cold of that hour: he fell prey to illness and died in 1650 at the age of 54. Focus on method: descartes" remained catholic to the end, but he did not find catholicism itself a method to arrive at truth, truth should be arrived at not from authority, or the. Bible, or the church, but from human reason alone: the philosophy of the ancients asn scholastics weren"t enough, descartes went from reading books to reading the book. Rejection of authority: descartes new system had to be built from scratch, the authority of aristotle and the authority of the church were to be challenged, only reason itself could provide sure foundations to human knowledge.
