PHIL 2003C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Beeswax, Causality, Trombone
18 Dec 2017
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Wrote in 1641: meditations on first philosophy. 3 things that descartes is going to prove. 3rd physical objects examples- bodies: the role of meditation one (p. 12, 1, especially the 2nd sentence) The planetary thought that you have to forget everything you were taught as a child. He wants you to start on a fresh foundation. (foundationalism) It is important to have a firm and unshaking. Attack the principals: the skeptical arguments-- and what escapes each, the sensory deception argument (p. 12, 3, good to read with them) -things not very small or very remote (p. 12, 4, sentences 1, good to have them give examples) Step 1: that he gets his beliefs from his senses. Good idea not to have complete trust in something that has deceived you. Think we shouldn"t just give up on beliefs. Clear and distinct things you can"t doubt that isn"t immediately present (answer: the madmen/ melancholics argument (p. 13, second sentence)
