[PHIL 1F90] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (73 pages long!)

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

November 10th, 1619: meditated beside a stove/inside a stove. Considerable value in the titles that descartes gives to six of the meditations. Autobiographical text: written entirely in the first person singular. From principle 1: (cid:862)i(cid:374)sofar as it is possi(cid:271)le, e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g should (cid:271)e dou(cid:271)ted o(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) a lifeti(cid:373)e (cid:271)y (cid:449)hoe(cid:448)er is sear(cid:272)hi(cid:374)g for the truth(cid:863) From principle 2: (cid:862)thi(cid:374)gs (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h are dou(cid:271)tful should (cid:271)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered as if they (cid:449)ere false(cid:863) Philosophy need to be built on a very solid foundation just as you would construct a building. The overall aim: to assess reason (how?, by means of reason (why?) In order to obtain some general rule of evidence. Think of a basket of apples, we should turn the basket over and dump all apples out. We need to examine the basket that the apples were in. Methodic or systematic doubt: over turning common sense realism or na ve realism. Belief that all knowledge comes from or through the senses.