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Epistemology

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Author(s): Faragó-Szabó, Istvan | Wilson, Catherine | Lehmann-Brauns, Sicco
1. Knowledge in the 16th centuryThe questions of where the boundaries of knowledge lie and how far it can extend were amongst the most commonly debated in early modern philosophy. They arose in connection with the intellectual crises that were shaking Europe beginning in the 16th century.As a result of the discoveries of lands previously unknown, theological division, the proliferation of texts in print, and later the invention of the telescope and the microscope, the  Weltanschauung of the late Medieval Ages gradually eroded. Images of humanity (Humankind), the …
Date: 2019-10-14