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This document provides a summary of key aspects of philosophy, covering the Renaissance period and 17th and 18th-century philosophies. It discusses prominent figures like Leonardo da Vinci and René Descartes, highlighting their contributions to the evolution of philosophical thought.
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PHILO MEATY DETAILS: A. Human Beings as the Most Interesting in Nature During the Modern Period - The Renaissance period is where leadership in art and literature reached peak. The result of this was the revival of ancient philosophy and European philosophers turning fr...
PHILO MEATY DETAILS: A. Human Beings as the Most Interesting in Nature During the Modern Period - The Renaissance period is where leadership in art and literature reached peak. The result of this was the revival of ancient philosophy and European philosophers turning from superstitious to empirical explanations of the world. - Leonardo Da Vinci’s VItruvian Man had been one of the most famous icons of this period. 1. There is harmony between our bodily structures as portrayed being God’s most perfect creation. 2. Illustrates the idea, set forth by Vitruvius, that the human body with hands and feet extended can be made to fit inside a circle and a square 3. Represents the perfectly proportionate rendering of the human form, as determined by the application of geometry and mathematics. B. Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man - 17th Century Philosophy: Rationalism was the predominant feature of this period. - It was a philosophical movement that promoted any view appealing to intellectual and deductive reason as the source of knowledge or justification. - Rejected religious and superstitious explanations of the world and sought to find logical explanations on how men behaved why the world worked as it was. - René Descartes is one of the earliest and best known proponents of Rationalism. Naturalism- Philosophy at this age lived in a world where two things seemed clear: nature is full of facts which conform fatally to exact and irreversible law; and human beings live best under a strong, benevolently dictatorial civil government. - 18th Century Philosophy: Frequently called the age of Empiricism. Age of Empiricism: Focused on experience as the source of knowledge. Key Figures: John Locke, David Hume, and George Berkeley. Immanuel Kant's Philosophy: Critical Idealism: Argued that the human mind shapes our understanding of the world. Third Period of Modern Philosophy: Marked a shift towards a more subjective and idealistic understanding of reality.
