CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rationality, Cardinal Virtues

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Prashan Ranasinghe

Document Summary

Philosophies force you to think and sciences makes your think. Religion is held together by faith not by sight, thus it is irrational because it asks you to believe blindly. 1650 religion is slowly coming undone as philosophy moves in and transcends into science. Hobbes is clinging on the methods to achieving a goal. Mathematical thinking (there is always one solution, the truth will always be the some) Reason will only work when attached to a method. How we came to know there"s is a problem is about to change. The means to how we come to know is changing from. Social contraction: the rights you have in the state of nature to be given up when you move to the state of society. 1651 3 issues to thinking: religious split, who should govern (sovereign or government, nations constantly at war. England consumed with issues should we use monarchy or democracy.