HUMA 1910 Study Guide - Final Guide: Robert Hooke, Tertullian, Paradigm Shift

136 views5 pages

Document Summary

Is a paradigm shift in thinking and it challenges and overthrows a previous way of thinking. It is unified, ie everybody will begin to think this way it"s not fact, its reasoned fact. were. Aristotelians thought all knowledge comes from the senses but. He wants to know things by know why things were the way they. We conclude that god is known first through nature, and then again, more particularly, by doctrine; by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word. Page 183 letter to the grand duchess christina. God gave us our senses and intellect for us to use not blindly. Galileo also expounds on the god-given gifts of intellect and reason. 1. ) two truths, book of nature and book of god. 2. ) both holy and religious. knowing nature and studying is not against god. Fontenelle the first evening (conversation on the plurality of the worlds)