HUMA 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Isosceles Triangle, Attention
15 Oct 2013
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Rules [regulae] of the direction of the understanding (written in latin) pgs. 1-49. Revolution (there was a complete break from the past) Clergies had some connection to the church. Descartes had no connection to the church. They thought that it was purely philosophic. Answer: it"s based on the failure of the medieval times, bible, plato/aristotle. Try to figure out where learning/knowledge has advanced, where knowledge has made positive advances: conclusion: in the entire history of learning, there"s two areas where new knowledge has been obtained. Empirical sciences: new knowledge was possible because mathematics and empirical sciences developed a method. Certainty (undubitability: adapt mathematics, the cartesian book (the regulae) will yield a mathematical type of knowledge to learn generally, rules 1-4 discuss mathematics acquire knowledge, rules 5-8 shows the adaption of that method to learn generally. Until descartes, knowledge was always tied to church doctrine. Theology drives philosophy: the enlightment, it is believed that philosophy is first, and theology comes later.
