COLLAB 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Fact, Solidarity, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
2 Apr 2015
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God controls nature he plays an active role in our lives. Heliocentric model copernicus sun is the center of the earth. The inquisition: galileo"s trail- take back what you said take back the idea of challenging reality he was sent to prison but not killed. He was sentenced to a life of silence in prison, told he would never go to heaven etc, because he challenged the church. 1800s - pendulum experiment to show the earth was moving. Eventually started to create the laws of science. A new foundation for knowledge is needed newton"s laws notions of reality begin to change: mother nature acts independently of man. Assumptions made for science to exist: god does not play an active role in our lives, knowledge is power: a means to an end the betterment of humankind, knowledge must be based on observable evidence.
