Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Augeas, Public Knowledge, Omnipotence
12 Feb 2013
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Are there biases that outline our understanding of the world: historical and biographical matters. One of the most famous philosophical texts of all time: An accomplished scientist and mathematician, often called the father of modern philosophy. Interested in the nature of science and in the method of science, a period of great intellectual confusion. Descartes" meditations on first philosophy were published in latin in 1641; also published in. French after (people started moving away from using latin as common language in europe and people started to write in their own languages: the project: Descartes" project was to pull down the degenerate edifice of knowledge and then rebuild it on firmer foundations, on foundations of certainty (everybody agree on what is absolutely certain) Cleaning the augean stables destroy the foundation and start anew. (one of the great labourers of king augean was hercules. Made hercules clean the stable in one day.
