In Discourse on the Method, Descartes recalls:[32]: 20–21 I entirely abandoned the study of letters. Resolving to seek no knowledge other than that of which could be found in myself or else in the great book of the world, I spent the rest of my youth traveling, visiting court...
both materialist and idealist. Descartes’s teachings on the immediate certainty of self-consciousness, on innate ideas, on the intuitive nature of axioms, and on the opposition of the material and the ideal laid the foundation for the development of idealism. On the other hand his teachings on...
When I was finally given the task of building a house, I said to myself: in its external appearance, a house can only have changed as much as a dinner jacket. Not a lot therefore. ... I had to become significantly simpler. I had to substitute the golden buttons with black ones. T...
Rene Descartes, pointing out that truth is unveiled in the process of discovery, and thereby “thought” or “sense” is merely one of the ways to discover. Meanwhile, Heidegger’s theory, which sees language as “house of being”, influenced deeply the development of post-modern philosophy. ...
An old book, like an old man, is bound to have a good character already established, and must expect to be looked upon with suspicion if it has not —Clarence Walworth The reading of good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries —Rene Descartes ...
But although it might be my part to write a preface of this nature, seeing I ought to know those particulars better than any other person, I cannot nevertheless prevail upon myself to do anything more than merely to give a summary of the chief points that fall, as I think, to be ...
text,Discourse on Method—“[…] since I found no society to divert me, while fortunately I had also no cares or passions to trouble me, I remained the whole day shut up alone in a stove-heated room, where I had complete leisure to occupy myself with my ...
作者:Anil Ananthaswamy/阿尼尔·阿南塔斯瓦米 出版社:Dutton 副标题:Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self 出版年:2015-8-4 页数:320 定价:USD 26.95 装帧:Hardcover ISBN:9780525954194 豆瓣评分 评价人数不足 评价: 写笔记 写书评
Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. Leibnitz- German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716) Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz,Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,Leibniz ...
Martine Rothblatt is one of Forbes’ Top 50 richest self-made women . He is so successful that not being a woman isn’t an obstacle to appearing on a list of the most successful women. Rothblatt shows his hand when, in his 2011 book Transgender to Transhumanism, he says: “I came to...