The lack of knowledge remains as the primary cause of many catastrophes in history. ... Throughout the history of our planet the knowledge we have gained benefited our society, while destroying our environment concurrently. ... As today scientific knowledge of physics can take us into outer space, we have encountered only more problems as a result of it. ...
For instance, Plato's theory of forms does not, to me, seem to jibe with modern physics and cosmology. ... After all, physics can give us insights into metaphysics, since both seek different ways to do the same thing. ... History is, of course necessary to any understanding of philosophy: how it came about, what people did with it. ... Descartes" Theory of Substance Dualism Throughout the history of man, philosophers have tried to come up with an explanation of where our minds, or consciousness, came from and how we are able to have a nonphysical characteristic of ourselves. ...
Even from an archeological point of view knowledge is uncertain, because archeologists are still discovering knew entities, which make take them to change the whole history of evolution. ... Or in physics that there is what is known as "relative errors", as there are mistakes produce while recollecting information, measuring, weighting and so on. ... On History, it happens the same, there exist partial an impartial sources, which depend on the ideologies of the author. ...
Descartes starts by looking at our usual sources of truth such as physics, astronomy, and medicine. He looks at these truths and doubts them feeling that these are not reliable sources of truth because time shows that we are all eventually proven wrong, much in the same way that science has been proven wrong over the courses of history. ...
Authority, which is churches, parents, and schools, he says, are not reliable sources for truth because time shows we all die, and that we are eventually proved wrong, much in the same way the accepted truths of science have changed dramatically over the course of history. ... With this in mind, Descartes deduces that the reliability of mathematics can no longer be doubted because God guarantees the truth of all self-evident ideas, but ones that can be calculated through mathematical physics. ...
Strenghts and Weaknesses of Immanuel Kant's Concept of Nature A philosophical reflection on a disturbed relation with nature in the light of the ecological crisis Summary This study seeks to identify the frameworks of philosophical-theological co-operation between intuitions, ideas, beliefs and convictions within Western history, which prepared the ground for what is now known as the ecological crisis. ... It also aims to uncover those sources of wisdom and knowledge within the Western history of philosophy and theology, which might be helpful in developing new perspectives for...
