*AIM. The alternate [goal} of philosophy is to understand the world.

"understand"? "world"?

- World, Nature,

Human Being - What is it? Author of discussion,


- Next to understand is to "explore" and explain means to know or discover the causes which make an event as a thing possible [real]. In the end to bring the event under a rule [law}.

- Knowing the causes makes the fact [to be understood] intelligible Ex headache.

*Assumption. The world is

interconnected whole.

- The world is intelligible

- The things and events which comprise it are not accident. Everything that happens has a cause (causes).

- No gaps or lose ends.

*Philosophical Quest. It is a persistent climb toward a vision of the whole.

- Infancy

- Common Sense

- Science

- Philosophy

Scientific knowledge is a more sophisticated kind of knowledge than common since.

If it is tested is more accurate. It is organized.

No such thing as "science" only sciences.

- Each studies one aspect of the world.

- Who seeks an understanding of the world?

Next. Philosophy comes before and after science. How?

1. Analysis. Scientific concepts and assumptions.

space, good, truth, theory, laws, cause,

who mediates between

science and common sense

" art

" religion.

Persistant questions.

Is time an object?

V0ision - questions to end or goal.

How do you know if beliefs are true?

Fruit of conjecture. Human beings make things.

Why do we exist. Mind feelings.

Political social value.

Creative phenominum

How did septer come about?

Power system

Experience vs understand.

Rain is a fact.

Man invents God to explain

Fact and consequence.

Human mind grasps

Ideas can be forgotten, not understanding.

World contains objects - Interconnected

Collect infornation (on paper)


Common sence is not tested.


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| | World

| science|

|science | Relationship between

| __ | sciences

no boundry

Only one nature

What is human being?

Body life - Mind, knowledge




Moral values = science cannot provide all the answers.