HUMA 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: First Principle, Physical Body, Direct And Indirect Realism

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1160
• Professor: Stanley Tweyman

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Question 1 last line (and [c] principle ) Question 2 discuss, as well [b], how he . Pg. 211 of course kit after the study of regulae, we should continue to study metaphysics, which contains the first principles of human knowledge. God, immoralities of our soul and all the clear and distinct (simple) notions which are in us. Absolutely nothing can be known before these first principles are known. The consequence of this is that if nothing can be known before they are known, then nothing can be used to support them. Therefore, these first principles have to be self-evident. 2 methods to conduct analysis: analysis, synthesis. In order for analysis to work (meditations), you have to be attentive and you can"t be hostile to a subject matter (negative towards a subject) The starting point in philosophy is indifference. He understands the matter no less perfectly and makes it as much as his own as if he had himself discovered .