PHIL 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhonism, Scholasticism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F91
• Professor: Brian Lightbody

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Descartes is considered the (cid:862)father of modern philosophy. Contained within this phase are two notions: Descartes is solely responsible for providing a new method for philosophical inquiry. (cid:1006). (cid:858)moder(cid:374)(cid:859) philosoph(cid:455) is so(cid:373)eho(cid:449) differe(cid:374)t tha(cid:374) the sort of philosoph(cid:455) that (cid:272)a(cid:373)e (cid:271)efore. We may divide pre-modern philosophy into four different groups. Consequently there were also four differe(cid:374)t i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)es o(cid:374) des(cid:272)artes(cid:859) thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g. Roughly defined here, the scholastics attempted to synthesize the philosophy of the ancient. Greeks (but especially aristotle) with the teaching of the church. We might understand this concern as judaism vs. romanism. Aristotle was a student of plato and has come to define what metaphysics means. For aristotle, metaphysics is the study of first philosophy that is, the study of the most fundamental things, principles and causes in universe. For aristotle the category of (cid:858)su(cid:271)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:859) is (cid:373)ore pri(cid:373)ordial tha(cid:374) all other (cid:449)a(cid:455)s i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:449)e (cid:373)a(cid:455) (cid:272)ategorize (cid:862)(cid:271)ei(cid:374)g(cid:863) Substance in brief, are those things which underlie change.