PHIL 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Madness
15 May 2017
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Realized that he had some false beliefs, had been drawing conclusions from those beliefs. Should raze everything to the ground and begin again from the original foundations. (p. 59) His beliefs have turned out to be false. He inherited many beliefs from others, without knowing they are true. Tradition is not a good basis for believing something. It would be inefficient if i went through each and every belief that i happened to have. I need to get at the basic principles that support my beliefs. Method of razing everything to the ground in order to see whether there is anything left standing. Target is not just beliefs that are false, but beliefs that can be doubted. What we can doubt, we will dismiss as false. He is not defending the view that we can"t know anything for sure. Used skepticism in order to find out whether we can know anything for sure.
