PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immanence, Arun Shourie, Omnipotence

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

All philosophy is a footnote to plato a. n. Pre pre socratics mythological thinking (appeal to supernatural) st revolution in thinking. The pre socratics non mythological thinking (science) appeal to the natural . Socrates (died 399 bce)- charged with corrupting youth and worshipping false gods. Thales- first to question origin of arche (said arche is water) Others said the 4 element (fire, earth, air, water) were arche nd revolution in thinking rd revolution in thinking. Aristotle is plato turned upside down (complete opposite?) After plato & aristotle comes neo platonism + post aristotelianism. Descartes, father of modern philosophy (modern= november 10th, 1617) S. k. , father of contemporary philosophy (contemporary= may 19th, 1838 10:30am) Asertions are only meaningful if something can be said against them. Animism, polytheism, monotheism, monism (everything can be explained by one principle like being ) *consequences of believing whether god exists or not: French philosopher voltar if god didn"t exist, we"d have to invent him .