Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nominalism, Montesquieu, Atomism
3 Apr 2016
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Distinguishes him (and montesquieu) from naive version of the enlightenment: right: a claim to something that is owed. Everyone has a responsibility to acknowledge and respect our claims: na ve: you are a human and therefor have rights. Relies of a community based on mutual respect. We can only be born into a community that legislates rights. Montesquiew: rights cannot be divorced from power. Dictator or king must give permission: in democracy: people must agree that you have rights. How do we know what we are outside of the social: logically, we can deduce what man in a state of nature would be. If you can begin to predict things relating to our needs-- can become geographically stable: relationship between family and farming. Permanently stable when we begin to grow things -- develop of language and knowledge takes off. It becomes institutionalized, tradition and collective memory develop: inequality begins to occur: a certain kind becomes institutionalized/regulated:
