• Two Philosophical Approaches

  

  Two approaches have been pre-eminently influential in philosophy. One approach says that we should trust what we think over what we see, because our perception is unreliable: we should place ‘mind over matter’. The other approach says that we should trust what we see over what we think, because our thinking is unreliable: we should place ‘matter over mind’. Both approaches have consequences, good and bad. […]

  drtobybetenson

  5th Dec 2023

  Philosophy

  Aristotle, Empiricism, Geocentrism, Patriarchy, Philosophy as a Way of Life, Plato, Rationalism, Science, Sexism, Socrates, Wisdom, Wittgenstein

A Student of Socrates

Tag: Rationalism