BIOL 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Epicureanism, Herophilos, Knidos
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Whitehead reading - we"re taught that there is a real world out there and it somewhere threw our sense gives rise to our thoughts. Using words that we use quite commonly: he believes that everything is very epicurean the way he"s presenting it. Uses word: internal objects because they"re in our mind. Keenly aware that in our mind, we act to that. Perception. passively taking in: he"s turning our ways of seeing upside down, we apprehend the world in 2 ways: causal efficacy and the world of the mind. Two aspects of the same thing that come together. He refers to hume and locke other philosophers maybe assume that readers know more than we do. (wikipedia them to know more should be sufficient: taking locke and inverting it. Secular rationalism - (that there"s an objective world) Two schools of medicine: the knidian and koan school (hippocrates and his followers: knidian aka cnidia = root: cnidos.
