PHIL 202 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - René Descartes, God, Physics

• School: Duke University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 202
• Professor: Bryce Gessell

Document Summary

Philosophy in the 17th century had a much broader meaning than it does now. Included the physical and biological sciences (the natural philosophies) and metaphysics (questions about the ways things exist) and epistemology (study of knowledge) and theology, politics, logic, and ethics. 16th century philosophy meant aristotelianism (aristotle, 384-322 bc: tho(cid:373)as a(cid:395)ui(cid:374)as lat(cid:272)hed o(cid:374)to a(cid:396)istotle"s philosophy a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:271)i(cid:374)ed it with. Spinoza, leibniz, (empiricist: sense experience is the source of knowledge and the ultimate source of all our concepts; the limits of sense of experience are the limits of knowledge) locke, berkeley, hume. Kant the critique of pure reason. Whe(cid:374) he"s (cid:1005)(cid:1004), he"s se(cid:374)t to a jesuit s(cid:272)hool for edu(cid:272)atio(cid:374: there for 8 years. Broad education including scholastic philosophy (christian philosophy and aristotelian philosophy: familiar with christian theology, arguments for the existence of god. 1618: encounters with difrerent figures in europe that rekindles his interest in math/science.