DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Animism, Averroism, Philosophical Explanations
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Mechanisation of the world view ren descartes. Mechanistic view: world view according to which everything in the material universe can be understood as a complicated machine; discards the notion that things have goals and intentions as assumed by the animistic view. Matter was continuous and made up of a. Descartes (mechanistic view) rejected all goals, emotions and intelligence in nature claimed that everything in the universe (except for the human soul) was a perfectly designed mechanism, made to function independently . God did not have to attend to it any more combination of the five elements (earth, water, air, fire and aether) The formulation of the first laws of physics. Isaac newton explained why planets orbit the sun and moons orbit planets. In doing so, he not only defined the relevant forces, but described them in such detail that they could be calculated precisely could be understood by everyone with a bit of mathematical sophistication.
