Notes:
Rationalism, Realism, Logic, Materialism, Idealism, Truth and Faith.
Senses, chemical, light and vibration. State of realization, space-time.
Skepticism
Moral and ethics
Reason <——— Separation of species and categorization. Mans innate function
Parallel universes. Dreams. Senses and their construction of our universe. PLATO – DESCARTES
The Natural World. Natural laws
Mans place in society
Overall View
Democritus initially proposed the atom theory. (a-tom) ‘un-cuttable’.
Fate is superstition. Where is the divide between faith and superstition? Christianity and lucky horse shoes, where is the difference?
“Fatalism is the belief that whatever happens is predestined” pg 45 everything was meant to happen.
Plato was obsessed with the fact that everything in the natural world ‘flows’. Everything in the material world is susceptible to the erosion of time. Ideas and forms however, are eternal. True forms exist in an alternate reality.
The soul exists before it enters the body and then once it enters the body and is born it forgets all perfect ideas. Then over its life the things it sees sirs an innate recollection of ideas and memories that the soul once saw in ‘the world of ideas’.
Body head chest abdomen
Soul reason will appetite
Virtue wisdom courage temperance
state rulers auxiliaries labourers
Aristotle organised everything due to it’s characteristics. He believed that we have the innate power of reason/logic, not ideas as Plato saw. Aristotle also believed that there is a reason for everything.
Aquinas natural law – natural theology – theology of faith
the reveal of god throughout the bible and god’s gift of innate reason e.g. the bible says thou shall not kill but you do not need the bible to know killing is bad.
Newton defined on of the fundamental laws of the universe, gravity.
Shakespeare: As you like it
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players
They all have their exits and entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.
Descartes
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