SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: The Communist Manifesto, Intellectual Freedom, Class Conflict
20 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Taylor clearly a main source of mills feminism. In the tradition of locke- passive experience or by our active habits of thought (we need experience in order to assess society and learn from society) Prediction would be less exact in the moral than the physical sciences. Statistics- we need stats to guide us, really helps pave way to better policy formation (e. g. crime issues, poverty) Interested in laws to determine effect of a given cause such as the abolition of the monarchy, or the intro of universal suffrage. A system argues that ppl were shaped by external conditions, but also influenced them. Character is formed both by as well as for us by experience (we as ppl are able to be shaped by our outside (external) conditions & influenced by them. This is determinists of health, poverty & living conditions) Distinguished mere empirical laws, from genuine, scientific or casual laws.
