PHILOS 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Innatism, Microscope
11 Apr 2018
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Locke is seen as a political philosopher: he thinks the state is the solution. [it is] not merely . that animals have less reason than men but that they have none at all. William harvey: gave the rst explanation of the circulation of the blood. The more that people learned about life, anatomy, microscopic dimensions, and physiology the more useful descartes theory of machines seemed true. The problem with his theory was the notion that animals and human machines cannot think. Locke was less certain than hobbes in terms of soul. Descartes and hobbes did not think we were in ignorance of the thing in us that thinks- for. Locke this was the problem They were talking like mathematician and locke said to use scienti cally approach. Royal society: to simple minded people doing experiments was very similar to witches and magic
