The Age of Reason, Foreword y Cognition and Measurement (Notas de estudio 4.5.20)

The Age of Reason

Source: W.T. Jones, ch. 1 in A History of Western Philosophy (Kant and the Nineteenth Century, volume IV, Second edition, revised) (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 1975), 1-13.

Concepts

• Enlightenment
• Optimism
• Progress
• Nature
• Reason
• Confidence
• Physical nature
• Human nature
• Science
• Rational
• Future
• Empirical
• Equallity of intellectual potential
• Liberty
• New man

Quotes

Reflection

The great men of the enlightenment were men of reason, purpose and self-esteem.

Foreword to the First Edition

Source: Ayn Rand, Foreword in Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (Expanded second edition, edited by Harry Binswanger and Leonard Peikoff) (New York: Meridian, 1990), 1-4.

Concepts

• The problem of universals
• Knowledge
• Concepts
• Schools of thought on universals
  • Extreme realists
  • Moderate realists
  • Nominalists
  • Conceptualists
  • Extreme nominalists
• Consciousness
• Abstractions

Cognition and Measurement

Source: Ayn Rand, ch. 1 in Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology (Expanded second edition, edited by Harry Binswanger and Leonard Peikoff) (New York: Meridian, 1990), 5-9.

Concepts

• Consciousness
• Active process
• Stages of consciousness
  • Sensations
  • Perceptual
  • Conceptual
• Discriminated awareness
• Percept
• Direct perception / direct awareness
• Existent
  • Implicit concept
    • Stages of development
      • Entity
      • Identity
      • Unity
• Method of identification
• Criterion of calssification
• Mathematics
• Measurement