SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Laziness

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Three levels of the mind and a language for each of them: level of consciousness and awareness; language of self-expression, level of social participation; language of practical sense, level of imagination; languages of mathematics, literatures and music. Science begins with the world we live in and then moves toward the imagination. Art begins with the world we construct and then moves toward the ordinary experiences. Arts and sciences can"t be distinguished by the mental processes the people in them use: both operate on a mixture of intuition and common sense. Science learns more about the world as it goes on; it evolves and improves. Literature begins with the optimal model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic. Enlightenment is man"s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one"s understanding without guidance from another.