PHI-10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Universal Property, Conservative Force, Le Monde
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No system discovered by man has greater usefulness not a greater appearance of truth (than skepticism) which shows us man naked, empty, aware of his natural weakness, fit to accept outside help from on high? . The natural human faculty is not capable of discovering truth. Copernican model of the solar system supersedes ptolemaic. Born march 31, 1596 la haye (-descartes) in touraine, france. Educated at the jesuit college at le fleche. Rejection of formal and final causes (in physics) Explanations of phenomena are by appeal to the motion material bodies. Ex: fire doesn"t actually have heat/that feeling of heat is not a real quality, all that"s in the fire is motion. Ex: in mechanistic: redness is not in an apple, it just reflect light waves in matter and motion, the appearance of redness is in us not in the apple. The meditations are supposed to clarify the discourse on method.
