POL S 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Scientific Control, Requisite Organization, Class Conflict
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Theories of being vs. becoming youlecture and dooley: These theories are based off the ionians. Ionians: the earliest greek philosophers who believed in using rationality rather than mythology to understand the universe. Theory of becoming: where the universe is in random/arbitrary changes and can be understood in material terms. Theory of being: underlying our ever-changing material world is a pre existing and permanent design: machiavelli on religion. Obedience to religion is different in that religious devotees obey what they perceive to be the authority of god out of a conviction that it is morally correct to do so. He explained that no institution is firm or lasting if it rests on man"s strength alone. History and reason combine to show that the roots of all great institutions are to be found outside this world sovereignties, in particular, possess strength, unity, stability only to the degree to which they are sanctified by religion.
