PHIL 3100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 50 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Prolegomena: things that need to be said before the metaphysics. Overview: kant regards three critiques as forming a system, there is controversy about if it works as a system or not, but we don"t care because we can appreciate the parts, the categorical imperative -> critique of practical reason. Descartes (how philosophy) has changed since plato and. Ancient metaphysics =main area of philosophy (aristotle calls 1st philosophy b/c everything follows from it. Modern philosophy (17th century+) emphasize on epistemology (theory of knowledge) Philosophy begins with wonder, understanding the world , modern wants to develop absolute certain principals (forms: model to understand the world but he can"t demonstrate it with math. Modern= science, technology driven, not just intellectual curiosity. Epicurus atomic theory of matter, they said the world is based on atoms that come together to produce things, but they did not produce it, it just explains things.
