Philosophers Trim the Tree of Knowledge

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encyclopedie sucks
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systematic organization of knowledge is bad
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exact definitions/defining characteristics is an exercise in power!
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the things in between categories is what disturbs us most because we feel violated
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therefore, the setting up of categories should not be taken lightly
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knowledge is inherently ambiguous
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compressing knowledge into schemata
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tree of knowledge was important for reasons???
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they made a MAP of human knowledge
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they attempted to narrow philosophy to a modest variety of truth (an oversimplification?)
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enCYCLOpedia: circle of learning
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knowledge: memory, historical knowledge; imagination, poetry; reason, philosophy
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but the faculties disappeared when he tried to draw a map!
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theology becomes the most important
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the chart makes art and science grow out of each other, which is wrong??
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encyclopedie ppl didn't give a shit about god tho
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just debates on the categories of history (literary and philosophical and power?? i think)
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the greatest differences between the encyclopedie and bacon were the sciences derived from reason (i.e. philosophy)
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the encyclopedists conveyed a message merely by positioning things (which is dangerousssss!! and fallible!)
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shape yielded significance (IMPORTANT)
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encyclopedists are applying reason to God, which is something Bacon warned against
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they dechristianized science by subjecting religion to philosophy
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believed that one could arrive at the knowledge of God by building sensations into ever more complex and abstract ideas
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encyclopedists grouped revealed and natural theology together on a single tree and subordinated both to reason
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fuck Bacon (SAID THE ENCYCLO PPL)
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discourse was a triptych: central panel provides morphological picture of knowledge and the side panels present epistemological and historical views
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discours secularized knowledge dethroned theology and elevated philosophy to its place not neutral knowledge was power and by mapping the world of knowledge they set out to conquer it