PSCI 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: English Civil War, Photojournalism, Physical Strength

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 2302
• Professor: Marc Hanvelt

Document Summary

You have to justify political authority, why we should obey and who are the rulers we should obey. All knowledge is based in human perception. We can never know the ultimate causes of things, but we can learn the regular effect of the causes that we do have access to highest ends as members of a political community. We can generate knowledge (causes and effects) that shape our world. We can learn how to make causes produce like effects (cid:494)(cid:495)man is a political animal(cid:495)(cid:495) aristotle means we as human beings realize our world he(cid:495)s going to reduce all human beings to motion. On the other hand, hobbes has a materialist and mechanical view of the. Hobbes thinks we are powerfully motivated by fear. He thinks what really drives us to act is the fear of violent death. One of the developments that are thought of turning tides of public opinion was photojournalism.