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Age of enlightenment

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Period where autonomous thinking + observation became advocated as the primary sources of knowledge

  • -> no reliance on authority
  • -> 18th century
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Positivism

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Movement that promoted the view that knowledge can only be obtained by means of the scientific method

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August Comte

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Founder of sociology + positivism

–> advanced the hypothesis that civilizations pass through 3 progressive stages called the “Law of three stages”

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Law of 3 stages of society

Comte

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  1. Theocratic stage
    - -> Gods + spirits dominate the culture
  2. Metaphysical stage
    - -> Philosophical explanations dominated
  3. Positivistic stage
    - -> explanations were provided by natural sciences

=> as society reaches its maturity when scientific explanations become the MOTOR OF PROGRESS

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Metaphysics

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Refers to a branch of philosophy that aims to explain the fundamental nature of the world and the human being

–> “What is really here ?”

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Why did the Age of enlightenment lead to the outbreak of the american war of independence + the french revolution ?

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Both were intended to release the ruling powers by a more reasonable government inspired by the scientific method

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How did Positivists justify their opinion that scientific knowledge should be the motor of all progress

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Science is always right because.

  1. It is based on observation + experimentation
  2. Their theories are summaries of observations

–> therefore science must decide all choices to be made

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Why did the Roman catholic church react negatively to the growing popularity of science ?

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In their opinion, Scientific knowledge is dangerous if not guided by religious morals

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Why did the Protestant churches react negatively to the growing popularity of science ?

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In their opinion, Science still had to be guided by religion

–> BUT: many saw science as an ally rather than an adversary

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Many protestant churches enjoyed good relationships with scientists and with Science in general.

Why did this stop in the 1870s?

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Several books + journals were published, where scientific findings (great breakthroughs) didn’t go along with the beliefs of the church

–> this raised suspicion about the extent to which scientific progress has been hindered by religion

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Humanities

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Academic disciplines that continued the traditional study of the ancient classics, supplemented with contemporary literature + art

e.g.: literature, culture, art, history etc

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Why did Edmund burke think that the French revolution was rather counterproductive to the evolution of societies/civilizations?

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According to him, a drastic breach in traditions will tear apart the existing social tissue which will lead to a feeling of unsettlement among humans

–> one will risk destroying century long growth + evolution when existing costumes are changed too often + too drastically

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Romantic movement

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Movement that saw the universe as a changing organism, which is why it cannot be understood as a machine

  • -> the mind is free and spontaneous
  • -> late 18th, early 19th century

=> against mechanistic worldview
e.g.: individual, irrational, etc

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What did the term “Two cultures” mean in the 20th century ?

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Snow used it to stress that the divide between science + humanities/religion had led to a split of the intellectual life of the whole western society into 2 polar groups

–> he thought the divide was a loss for society because their interaction could be beneficial

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(Cartesian) Dualism

Descartes

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Refers to a distinction between the immaterial mind + the material body

–> the soul is separate, divine + independent of everything else

“Cogito ergo sum” = I think, therefore I am

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Mechanistic view

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Everything in the universe can be understood as a perfectly designed machine, made to function independently so God doesn’t have to attend to it

  • -> as the soul is divine it cannot be studied
  • -> counterargument to the teleological explanation
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How did Newton resolve the question of why the earth is orbiting the sun ?

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By using 3 mathematical laws that adequately described the movement if the copernican universe

–> suggested that scientific knowledge could be summarized in mathematical laws

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Principia mathematica

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Newtons book in which he presented his laws of physics

–> considered to be the primary reason for the increased status of science

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Individualisation

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Refers to a greater focus by individuals on themselves than not the groups they belong to

  • -> looser social relations
  • -> characteristic of current western society
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What are the main contributors of individualization ?

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  1. Increased complexity of society
    - -> w/ urbanisation people felt a greater need to compete with others
  2. Increased control by the state
    - -> more monitoring by the state, led to a feeling of standing out
  3. Individuality promoted christianity
    - -> private state of faith + relation to god
  4. Mirrors, books, letters
    - -> emotions
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Epistemology

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Focused finding out the nature of knowledge, how do you construct it

e.g.: What is knowledge, how is it developed etc.

  • -> branch of philosophy
  • -> goes even deeper than introspection
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Rationalism

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Knowledge is obtained by means of deductive reasoning on the basis of INNATE knowledge

–> traditional view of understanding in philosophy
(Plato, Descartes)

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Empiricism

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Knowledge is obtained by means of perceptual experiences + inductive reasoning

–> there is no innate knowledge to start with

=> rise of empiricism lead to questioning of the rationalist view

(Locke, Berkley, Hume, Bacon)

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Idealism

Berkeley + Hume

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View that human knowledge is a construction of the mind + doesn’t necessarily correspond to an outside world

–> usually contrasted to realism

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Realism

Kant

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Assumes that every event has a cause due to the existence of cause-effect relationships in the outside world

–> knowledge is determined by its correspondence with the outside world

ex.: we think that the sun is the cause of light because the experiences of sun + light coincide

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What is Kants view on the mind and its importance on knowledge ?

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Sought to reconcile rationalism + empiricism by arguing that THE MIND

  1. Imposes structure on the incoming sensory experiences
  2. Requires a coherent + constant input to make sense of the input
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On which points did Kant agree/disagree with Hume + Berkeley ?

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Agree:

We cannot have direct knowledge of the outside reality through perception

Disagreed:

Perception is much richer than suggested

  • -> its consciously perceived + thought about
  • -> combination of senses are formed into perception
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What are the 4 parts in metaphysics ?

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  1. Ontology
    - -> universe + its entities
  2. Natural theology
    - -> God(s)
  3. Universal science
    - -> axioms + demonstrations on which theoretical knowledge is based
  4. Psychology
    - -> added later
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Rational psychology

Wolff

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Psychology is based on axioms + deductions

  • -> approach that guarantees true conclusions about the human soul
  • -> allows for more involvement than mere observations
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Introspection

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Research method where a person looks inwards and reports what he or she is experiencing

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Empirical Psychology

Wolff

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Psychology is based on introspection

  • -> needs a close interaction between reason + observation
  • -> should aim for mathematical demonstrations
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For which reasons, did KANT argue, that Psychology cannot be a proper science ?

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  1. The act of introspection changes the state of mind
  2. Inner observations cannot be separated + recombined at will
    - -> can therefore not be formulated in mathematical laws

Psychology = no science

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For which reasons, did COMTE argue, that Psychology cannot be a proper science ?

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According to him, the human mind can only be studied scientifically by focusing on

  1. Physiology (biology)
  2. Products of the human mind (Sociology)

Psychology = no science

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Interactionist dualism

Descartes

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Refers to the fact that the mind can influence the body via the pineal gland

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According to Descartes, human beings are capable of 2 important things.

Which were they ?

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  1. Thought
  2. Volition
    - -> Free will
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Monism/Materialism

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The body and mind are one, and not distinct from another

–> counterargument to Dualism

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Law of conservation

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Energy is only transformed, never used up

–> doesn’t go with interactionist view, as this states that energy can be used up

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John Locke

Empiricist

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He rejected innate ideas, people were born without any knowledge and acquired it through experience

–> Father of empiricism

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Bishop Berkeley

Idealist

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First person to raise discussion on idealism versus realism.

  • -> He agreed with ideas of empiricism and only believed in secondary qualities described by Locke
  • -> “Experience is all there is”
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Hume

Idealist

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‘Idealism questions the scientific attempt of unearthing causes and effects. Since causes are never observed directly, we derive them from experiencing the co-occurrence of phenomena. The mind simply infers causality from co-occurrence in time and place’.

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Constructivism

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The mind is a blank slate that can be filled up through time by experiences

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Why did the Humanists react negatively to the growing popularity of science ?

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They thought it was dangerous to exclusively think in a rational way, as the emotional aspect is important as well

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Determinism

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Understanding the order + regularities of past events which makes the world predictable

–> changes occur in operation of a clock universe

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Reductionism

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The physical universe can be understood by analyzing or reducing it to its simplest parts: molecules and atoms

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Mentalism

Berkeley

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All knowledge is a function of mental phenomena and depends on the person perceiving or experiencing

–> Perception is subjective and does
not mirror external world

–> Because all experience is within us, we can never know exactly the physical nature of objects

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Which were the 4 counterforces opposed to positivism ?

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  1. Roman catholic church
  2. Protestant church
  3. Romanticists
  4. Humanists
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How do organizations in societies try to increase their power ?

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  1. Conflict + oppression
  2. Alliance formation
    - -> when own power is threatened to ensure it
  3. Exclusion of individuals
    ex. : Galileo
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What lead to the diminishing of the churches power, ultimately resulting in the Enlightenment ?

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  1. Development of logic and mathematics in M.A. and Renaissance

–> senses are deceptive and reason is the best guide to understand the world

  1. Individualisation
    - -> made people question their role in society in which the church was useless

–> Newton, Locke are key personalities

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Mind-body problem

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Question of the distinction between mental and physical qualities

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Skepticism

Hume

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We can no nothing at all with all certainty

–> therefore we need to be skeptic

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