HUMA 1160 Lecture Notes - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, First Principle
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Leviathan parts one and two (library of liberal arts) 4 inclass tests: 20, 30, 30, 20. Epistemology ( area of study) source of the world greek study of knowledge: what ought i do? responsibility, duties, obligations, ethics/ politics, what can i hope for? eschatology ( in greek means last things) These are the questions we are going to study. General concede to each of the philosophisers they all believe they were going to change the world revolutionize the world. They though learning of the past was a waste of time therefore they believed learning begins with them. What were people doing before the enlightenment thinkers. What the enlightenment thinkers believed the medieval thinkers were doing- That all truth had already been discovered, therefore there was no need to find new knowledge. They believed these truths were to be found in bibles.