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Schools of thought and historical development 1) Skeptics a) Ancient (1) Pyrrho of Elis (2) Sextus Empiricus b) Medieval (1) St. Augustine 2) Rationalists a) Ancient (1) Plato b) Medieval (1) St. Anselm (2) St. Augustine c) Modern (1) Descartes (2) Leibniz (3) Spinoza 3) Empiricists a) Ancient (1) Aristotle b) Medieval (1) St. Thomas Aquinas c) Modern (1) Locke (2) Berkeley (3) Hume 4) Kant and post-Kantian thinkers (Modern) a) Immanuel Kant b) Hegel 5) Pragmatism (contemporary-20th
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movement and was seen to have different definitions created by a range of philosophes during and after the enlightenment period. These philosophers included Immanuel Kant‚ John Locke‚ Francis Bacon‚ Marquis de Condorcet‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Rene Descartes. Some believed that the enlightenment somewhat defined what we now call modernity and consider to be human. Immanuel Kant quoted in his famous 1784 essay‚ the “Enlightenment is mankind’s exit from its self-incurred immaturity.” Kant‚ I (1784) pp
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Early forms of this philosophy is found notably from Plato. During the sixteenth century rationalism began to to take form and changed the view of the world. René Descartes was an essential philosopher and the most well known philosopher of Rationalism. His belief “... that knowledge of eternal truths….could be attained by reason alone (Luke Mastin 2008 Basics of Phil.) he made conclusions of the world and other concepts
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appear that we know plenty about the world we live in‚ but upon further consideration‚ we realize that many of the things we ‘know’ to be true are not absolutely certain – we don’t ‘know’ them for sure. In his Meditations on the First Philosophy Rene Descartes undertakes a famous thought experiment‚ questioning what knowledge he has at the most basic level: Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true I have acquired either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found
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GUMATAY‚ Ma. Rina Marcela T. ED2-01 PHILOSOPHERS ANCIENT PERIOD Aristotle Famous for his writings on physics‚ metaphysics‚ poetry‚ theater‚ music‚ logic‚ rhetoric‚ linguistics‚ politics‚ government‚ ethics‚ biology‚ and zoology‚ he was an extremely learned and educated individual. He is also among the first person to set a comprehensive system of Western philosophy which include views about morality and aesthetics‚ logic and science‚ politics and metaphysics. This system became the supporting
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Academy in Athens for 20 years‚ before founding his own school‚ The Lyceum‚ which closed in 83 BC. The remains of the Lyceum were discovered in modern Athens in 1996 in a park behind the Hellenic Parliament. (Wikipedia‚ n.d.) 4. 1596-1650 Rene Descartes believe in dualism along with Socrates. He believed that the human mind was not subject to laws. The mind controls the body‚ and the body provides information for the brain. (Understanding Psychology page 12 para 2) 5. 1632-1704 John Locke believed
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that there are no innate idea’s/concepts or knowledge. John Locke is an Empiricist and a firm believer‚ he disagrees that we have any a priori/innate ideas or knowledge. Rene Descartes ‚ a Rationalist philosopher disagrees with this view and believes that we have some innate knowledge‚ the knowledge that God exists. Descartes believes that the idea of God is innate and it present knowledge at birth. He says that only a being as perfect as God could of put the idea of God in his head. However‚ Locke
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western thought‚ following the emergence of science in the Enlightenment period. It looks at the analysis that some ecofeminist critics have elaborated in relation to the work of two of the “founding fathers” of modern science‚ Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes‚ to understand how they re-conceptualised nature and re-associated it with the new conception of women. The focus is on the Enlightenment era because the ideas‚ then constructed‚ brought about intellectual‚ political and economical revolutions that
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Descartes views in the Second Meditation is that he tries to clarify precisely what this “I” is‚ this “thing that he thinks.” He concludes that he is not only something that thinks‚ understands‚ and wills‚ but is also something that imagines and senses. Even though he thinks he may be dreaming or deceived by an evil demon‚ he’s still something that can imagine‚ hear‚ and see things. His sensory perceptions may not be truthful‚ but they are certainly a part of the same mind that thinks. He believes
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