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Mar 2010
5m 42s

2.1 Recap of General Philosophy Lecture ...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Part 2.1. A brief recap on the first lecture describing how Aristotle's view of the universe, dominant throughout the middle ages in Europe, came to be gradually phased out by a modern, mechanistic view of the universe. 
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