Section 8
- Empiricism is the belief that knowledge comes from experience. Saying that when you are born, you have a “blank slate” and you develop ideas, thought, concepts.. etc from experience. YOU GAIN KNOWLEDGE FROM EXPERIENCE. Opposed to innatism, which believes that the mind is born with ideas and knowledge.
- The Design Argument is an argument about the existence of a creator, a god. All knowing, all powerful, and all good.The world we live in is perfectly constructed, with everything working together. Like a complex machine. Something that has been made, created. But if there is a god why is there evil in the world? Is it because it's all apart of a plan that's bigger than us.
Cites cited:
3. A Little History of Philosophy
You'll be pointing out that Hume rejected the Design Argument in his "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion," right?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/4583/4583-h/4583-h.htm
This is discussed in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume-religion/#ArgDes
Also see: https://philosophynow.org/issues/83/David_Hume_at_300