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Knowledge - Coggle Diagram
Knowledge
Descartes
Mind/Body problem
Dualism
Mind and body are separate entities
Monoism
Mind and body are the same
Mechanistic view
God created the world to work as a self-perpetuating machine
Heliocentric universe that the church could accept
Beginning of the age of enlightenment
Rationalist
Everything can be explained with reason
Everyone has innate knowledge
Plato
Age of Enlightenment
Empiricism
Locke
Tabula Rasa/Blank Slate
Human knowledge is gained through experience
Romantic movement
Humanities
Individualism
Began in the Middle Ages
Everyone wants to be different from society
Realism
Human knowledge tries to reveal properties of the outside world
Idealism
Human knowledge does not correspond to an outside world
Kant
Humans are conscious of perception
Humans make sense of their perception
Critique of pure reason
Inspired by Hume
Perception can only exist in a world that allows for it
Introspection is flawed
Didn't believe in psychology as a natural science
Wolff
Popularized the word 'psychology'
Described psychology
Empirical psychology
Observation
Psychometria
Mathemtical demonstration
Rational psychology
Deductive reasoning
Leading figure in German Enlightment
Introspection
Comte
Also against psychology as a science
Made a ranking of sciences with maths at the top
Positivism
Three stages
Theocratic stage
Metaphysical stage
Positivistic stage
Newton
Principia Mathematica
Explained the heliocentric model
Three laws of motion
Energy retains itself
Groundbreaking in the community