Faith VS. Reason Flashcards
These developments and improvements in thinking led to uncertainty and doubt in faith
Scientific development
medicine and the body
developments of new scientific disciplines
The process of dissection led to
medicine and body challenged old traditions and social codes in relation to death which ritualized the process of dissection
Andreas Versalius
map maker for body
understanding of veins and arteries
where internal organs are
William Harvey
Circulatory system; blood volume
Marcello Malpighi
identified capillaries with microscope
Robert Boyle
Making chemistry a “science”
Descartes
Early Skeptic
- > proof
- > not taking as a given
- > “I am doubting everything”
- > doubting is an action
- > whatever is doubting must exist, so I must exist
- > “I think, therefore I am”
Francis Bacon
“Knowledge is power”
Pascal
“The heart has reasons that reason does not know”
Empiricism
observation then conclusion
Galen
1st Roman physician
-> dissected pigs and applied that knowledge to the human body
