Philosophy 2202F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Political Philosophy, Underdetermination, Ralph Cudworth
17 Apr 2019
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* made philosophical contributions in numerous areas, including epistemology, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of education; also a medical doctor. * involved in the turbulent politics of 17thcentury britain (civil war, the puritan protectorate, the. * completed his main philosophical work, the essay concerning human understanding (1690) while in exile in holland. It shall suf ce to my present purpose to consider the discerning faculties of a man as they are employed about the objects which they have to do with. Secondly, i shall endeavor to show what knowledge the understanding has by those ideas, and the certainty, evidence and extent of it. Thirdly, i shall make some inquiry into the nature and grounds of faith or opinion, by which i mean that assent we give to any proposition as true, of whose truth yet we have no certain knowledge (i. i. 3)
