PSCI 2301 Lecture Notes - Ethics, Protestantism, Thought Experiment

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Class 2 psci2300b january 13, 2014 hobbes 1. Hobbes is the founder of modern world; everyone after hobbes tries to argue against the darkness that hobbes writes against. Man is nothing but matter in motion. No soul, cosmos, etc: the mechanical world view. World is a machine with human beings as a part of that nature: modern physics describes everything from particles to astrophysics. Hobbes operating at the end of 200 years of religious war: no end to moral questions or dispute and conflict over religion, cannot be resolved because it is not a matter of science and truth. Mechanical universe, the new science of politics: the rejection of custom and tradition. Must re-found politics on the stable, true foundation of modern science: only then will the violence end; all religions are personal and individual; nothing to do with the public sphere, which is secular and based on rationality.

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