{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Empiricism","description":"A world that believed it already knew everything suddenly found itself full of questions. Telescopes revealed new worlds in the sky. Civil wars shattered old certainties on the ground. What if the mind was not above the world, but shaped by it?\r\n\r\nIn seventeenth-century Europe, inherited truths were shaking. The old scholastic confidence, that reason could build knowledge from first principles, was crumbling under the weight of new discoveries and social upheaval. The telescope and microscope had made the universe strange again. Even more, the violence of civil conflict made old authorities look not wise, but dangerously brittle. In this atmosphere, trust in tradition alone no longer seemed safe. People everywhere were forced to ask: what could be believed, and why?\r\n\r\nAurelius and Malik take on this case in full — 5 chapters, 36 minutes, one complete story.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thephilosophyarchive.com/philosophy/empiricism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}