[PHILOS 1] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (58 pages long)
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Genuine knowledge by withdrawing mind from senses. Forms cannot be imagined or sensed because they are the essence/nature of things and universal rather than particular: aristotle. Starting point of knowledge is sensory experience. Nothi(cid:374)g is i(cid:374) the i(cid:374)telle(cid:272)t that is(cid:374)"t first i(cid:374) the se(cid:374)ses. Knowledge is based on information gained from the senses which we can later abstract into general ideas: thomas aquinas. His philosophy was held as the official philosophy of the catholic church. Aristotle"s philosoph(cid:455) + christia(cid:374) theolog(cid:455: la fleche. One of the most famous schools in europe (jesuit school) Young rene descartes: born duri(cid:374)g (cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) (cid:894)galileo"s helio(cid:272)e(cid:374)tri(cid:272) theor(cid:455)(cid:895) a(cid:374)d protesta(cid:374)t. Refor(cid:373)atio(cid:374) (cid:894)split catholi(cid:272) (cid:272)hur(cid:272)h a(cid:374)d thirt(cid:455) year"s war(cid:895: er(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) the thirt(cid:455) year"s war. Met isaac beekman while in the army, who served as his tutor and exposed descartes to natural philosophy and new experimental procedures: trained in aristotelean/thomas aquinas philosophy at la fleche. Found flaws and wished to overthrow aristotelean philosophy.
