PHL201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Neanderthal, Thought Experiment, Homo Erectus
Document Summary
The cartesian theory of the physical universe. One of the oldest tricks in the western intellectual book; in the beginning chaos was born , refers to an ancient tradition going back to ancient middle eastern societies of order emerging from chaos stories. Fragments of many pre-platonic philosophers that brought up and considered this exact thought experiment. Go back to stuff missed around 11:33. Cool god! : attempting to understand system of order of the world; kind of implying our world could occur in this way without intervention of god. North america, but more recently (within 5 years) has been accepted that people crossed from africa via boats. Question period: would descartes" beliefs about the nature of the world make him not christian because they are so contradictory with christian belief, hutchinson makes reference to genesis; god made the world and man in 7 days.
