Descartes, René: Overview&[Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
René Descartes is often credited with being the “Father of Modern Philosophy.” This title is justified due both to his break with the traditional Scholastic-Aristotelian philosophy prevalent at his time and to his development and promotion of the new, mechanistic sciences. His fundamental break with Scholastic philosophy was twofold. First, Descartes thought that the Scholastics’ method was prone to doubt given their reliance on sensation as the source for all knowledge. Second, he wanted to replace their final causal model of scientific explanation with the more modern, mechanistic model. Descartes attempted to address the former issue via his method of doubt. Once this conclusion is reached, Descartes can proceed to rebuild his system of previously dubious beliefs on this absolutely certain foundation. Table of Contents 1. René Descartes was born to Joachim Descartes and Jeanne Brochard on March 31, 1596 in La Haye, France near Tours. Little is known of Descartes’ life from 1614-1618.
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Online videos of philosophical lectures « A brood comb
|Updated on May.03rd 2008| Bored by movies, and don’t feel like reading a book? You can watch philosophical and other interesting videos on web. Alternatively you may want to check the newest developments of my first iPhone game – Henophobia At Young Philosophers: Also… Debbie in the comments pointed to this course on Death by Shelly KaganAnd a link to a Gresham College Lectures and Events, which Tjh recommended in the comments long time ago, but I never got to pick out the philosophically interesting ones. Some of those are philosophically interesting: Or check the whole collection for more. TED talks site hosts bunch of videos related to philosophy of mind, featuring Dennet, Pinker, Ramachandran, Kurzweil and others. You can check the lecture “Being No One: Consciousness, The Phenomenal Self, and the First-Person Perspective” by Thomas Metzinger (1hr) presented at UC Berkeley.If you are interested in that video, check PSYCHE symposia on Thomas Metzinger’s book Being No One. Here. Like this:
Hogeschool Geesteswetenschappen Utrecht - Hermetica
Hermes Trismegistos (de Egyptische god Thot) werd in de Oudheid, Middeleeuwen en Renaissance gezien als bron van Universele wijsheidskennis. Hermes was een leraar van wijsheid en wetenschap in een tijd waarin nog geen onderscheid werd gemaakt tussen wetenschap en (wijsheid) kennis. De Hermetische literatuur, ontstaan in Alexandrië, bestaat uit zeventien traktaten opgenomen in het Corpus Hermeticum en de Asclepius. Het Corpus Hermeticum en de Asclepius hadden grote invloed op o.a. Ficino Paracelcus, J. van Rijckenborgh, Pico della Mirandola en William Blake. In het Corpus Hermeticum wordt Hermes beschreven als een mens uit de oertijd die in de goddelijke geheimen is ingewijd. Inhoud van de leergang In een historisch overzicht behandelen we de grondtonen van de Hermetica in al haar veelvormigheid. Docent De colleges worden verzorgd door drs. Omvang Toelatingseisen Er zijn geen speciale toelatingseisen geformuleerd.De colleges worden aangeboden op (post)Hbo-niveau Studiekosten Start » Aanmelden
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