Philosophy 48 Flashcards
What is the significance of the recovery of Sextus Empiricus’s thought?
It added to the growing epistemological certainty through his classical defense of Skepticism
What was Descartes faced with?
A crumbling world view, unexpected and disorienting discoveries of every sort, and the collapse of fundamental institutions and cultural traditions
What did Descartes set out to do?
Descartes set out to discover an irrefutable basis for certain knowledge
What is the meaning and significance of cogito, res cogito, and res extensa?
Cogito - the first principle and paradigm of all other knowledge
Res cogito - thinking, substance, subjective experience, spirit, consciousness
Res extensa - extended substance, objective world, matter, the physical body
What did God create?
The universe and defined its mechanical law
What could man no longer claim?
To see immanent forms and purposes in nature
