October 17, 2010
Descartes Bones
Discourse on the Method
"I am the way, the truth, and the life" or "I think therefore I am" as pointing out that the ability to think is proof that there is reality or something that thinks
Conflicts between faith and reason
Human reason supplants received wisdom
Cartesianism: the body is a kind of machine and death an absolute barrier
Spinoza believed (as did Einstein) that God is all of nature and we are some subset of it. Order to it all, but not a God that controls fate and human actions. Aethiesm believes in happenstance.
Sapere aude: dare to know. Have the courage to use your own ubderstanding, this is the motto of the Enlightenment
The real experiment of America was in Enlightenment. Designed bu Voltaire, a student of Descartes
Locke argued that societies are held together by a social contract"
The French Revolution was about removing the "church" from the "state" - Pantheon in Paris
Lenoir believed thathumanity has evolving upward, toward happiness, freedom, equality and a higher state of civilization
Museum of French Monuments - Lenior - Paris
1 meter is 1 ten millionth of the meridian passing from the equator thru Paris to the north pole
"I am the way, the truth, and the life" or "I think therefore I am" as pointing out that the ability to think is proof that there is reality or something that thinks
Conflicts between faith and reason
Human reason supplants received wisdom
Cartesianism: the body is a kind of machine and death an absolute barrier
Spinoza believed (as did Einstein) that God is all of nature and we are some subset of it. Order to it all, but not a God that controls fate and human actions. Aethiesm believes in happenstance.
Sapere aude: dare to know. Have the courage to use your own ubderstanding, this is the motto of the Enlightenment
The real experiment of America was in Enlightenment. Designed bu Voltaire, a student of Descartes
Locke argued that societies are held together by a social contract"
The French Revolution was about removing the "church" from the "state" - Pantheon in Paris
Lenoir believed thathumanity has evolving upward, toward happiness, freedom, equality and a higher state of civilization
Museum of French Monuments - Lenior - Paris
1 meter is 1 ten millionth of the meridian passing from the equator thru Paris to the north pole