From the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century, there emerged a modern science paradigm, which was based on the doctrines established by such scientists as Galileo, Bacon, Descartes and Newton, with mechanism, determinism and reductionism as its characteristics.
Both Bacon's unity of knowledge,Descartes' universal mathematics and Hobbes' physicalism originated from the pursuit of an absolute certainty and tried to make knowledge a universal,eternal and absolute truth through a 'scientific method' truth,consequently,'scientific method' was endowed certain capacity which could apply to the fields of politics,economics and literature,even gained a position which could dominate everything,this was the important reason that scientism generated in the seventeenth century.
The creation of false memories, psychiatric symptoms and false allegations of satanic child abuse during an outbreak of witch hysteria in Sweden in the seventeenth century are described and related to contemporary issues in child testimonies.
This paper is mainly to discuss HU Wei's I T u Ming Bian (A Discriminat ion and Analysis between Different Diagrams & Figures Concerning IChing) a s wel l as the movement of the distinction between Confucianism and Taoism in the midd le seventeenth century. In responding to the collapse of the Ming dynasty and th e intrusion of the Manchurians, Chinese scholars paid their efforts on revising Confucianism to rebuild a new cultural and academic environment. Part of their j ob was to get rid of th...
From the seventeenth century to the late twentieth century, there emerged a modern science paradigm, which was based on the doctrines established by such scientists as Galileo, Bacon, Descartes and Newton, with mechanism, determinism and reductionism as its characteristics. The modern science paradigm had so obvious limitations that it was criticized and questioned by many scientists and philosophers in the twentieth century. In the meantime, a postmodern science paradigm, based on o...
Man has a natural inclination to seek certainty, and i n its philosophical appearance we can see it clearly from the old Greek philsoph er Plato.In the Middle ages,God was regarded as the final providence of certaint y.In the seventeenth century,western philosophy had an epistemological turn and rationalism and experientialism appeared.Although there is much differerce bet ween them, they have the same foundationalism view of knowledge:there is a defin ite basis of knowledge.The view is dubious ...