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PHILOSOPHER WORK/S
James Frederick “EPISTEMOLOGY” INSTITUTE OF
Ferrier METAPHYSICS:
The theory of
knowing and being
Plato Ideas are inherent in the Idealism The Dialogue
human mind Innatism The Republic
Socrates “we are pregnant with ideas” ; Intellectualism
“knowledge is virtue” Myopic Method of
knowing
Aristotle “ the truth is immanent , Realism Nicomachean Ethics
existing in the world of matter Geocentric Theory Organon
and experience”;
“the truth is the conformity of
the mind and thing” ;
“Everything tends to fall
towards the earth, therefore
earth must be the center of the
universe”
Aquinas “Universals are fundamentally Moderate Realism Summa Theologica
in the object, and formally in Correspondence Summa
the mind” ; “There is nothing in Theory
the mind without passing thru Scholasticism
senses”
Augustine of ““When I speak the truth, I do Divine Illumination The Confession
Hippos not teach someone who sees The city of God
these truths. For he is taught
not by my words but by the
things themselves made
manifest within when God
discloses them.”; “truth is
revealed by god through the
human mind”
Anselm of “I believe so that I may Scholasticism
Canterbury understand.”; “Credo ut
intelligam.”; “philosophy is
handmaid of theology”
Ptolemy The universe is a set of nested Geocentric Theory Almagest
spheres, of which one sphere,
the Earth, is stationary at its
center. The others revolve
around the Earth which, in the
order from it, are the Moon,
Mercury, Venus,
the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and
Saturn
Nicolaus Heliocentric Theory On the Revolution of
Copernicus Celestial Bodies
Glileo Galilie "Philosophy is written in this Heliocentric Theory Dialogue
grand book, the universe. It is Concerning the Two
written in the language of Chief World
mathematics, and its Systems
characters are triangles,
circles, and other geometric
figures.”; “The church is the
authority in faith
and morals, but not in
science.”