SOSC 1009 Study Guide - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, First Principle

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1009
• Professor: Julie Dowsett

Document Summary

Meditations on first philosophy (caravan books: thomas hobbes. Leviathan parts one and two (library of liberal arts: david hume. Dialogues concerning natural religion (caravan books): course kit (huma 1160) 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.