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(Created page with ""The Modern Intellectual Tradition" is a lecture series available on Audible that tracks the development of modern philosophy from Descartes to Derrida. = Sequence of Philosophers = == Descartes == * Rationalism: Not all knowledge is derived from experience, antonym of empiricism. * Dualism: All things are either mind/soul or mechanistic (animals have neither soul nor free will). * I think therefore I am. (not a direct quote) * Foundationalism: What can we know with cer...") |
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Revision as of 23:30, 15 September 2025
"The Modern Intellectual Tradition" is a lecture series available on Audible that tracks the development of modern philosophy from Descartes to Derrida.
Sequence of Philosophers
Descartes
- Rationalism: Not all knowledge is derived from experience, antonym of empiricism.
- Dualism: All things are either mind/soul or mechanistic (animals have neither soul nor free will).
- I think therefore I am. (not a direct quote)
- Foundationalism: What can we know with certainty?
- "Proof" of God
- I can conceive of infinity.
- Only God is infinite.
- I cannot conceive something unless it exists.
- Therefore God exists.
- No, really, that's the whole thing. But remember it was the 1600s and he was going where no-one had gone before.
Locke
- Empiricism: All ideas come from experience.
- Atomic theory, in effect: There are real things out there, and my senses perceive characteristics of them, but all I know of them is the perception, not the thing.
Berkeley
- Empiricism.
- There is nothing underlying what we experience for us to concern ourselves with. The experience is everything.
- If there were two things, experience and substance, and they were entirely distinct things, how could they interact? How could substance induce experience?