SOC SCI H1G Lecture 2: Honors Naturalized Epistemology: Lecture 2

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Noticed that people tend to believe whatever the people around them believe. Since common belief differs from place to place, common belief is not a reliable guide taught by the jesuits. Joined the army of maurixe of nassau in 1618 and fought in the thirty years war for truth. Philosophical project: to find genuine knowledge, not biased opinion. Descartes was a foundationalist and a rationalist. You either have rational justification or you don"t. Not a relativist with respect to truth. Absolutist with respect to truth and rational justification. What i take to be the truth may differ from another person, but my believing it doesn"t make it true. Relativist with respect to truth is more radical. He took rational justification to work like euclidean geometry: house analogy. Tear it down, start over; build solid and quality foundation. Clear and distinct perception (of the mind) For descarte, all knowledge is founded on this.

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