SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conservatism, Feudalism
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Rejects his father"s plan for his life and wants to live his life in a way he considers not a waste of life. He says if you want to do something for humanity/society do well for yourself and find your passion and excel in it. He is involved in different types of philosophy, materialism. Positivist: something is either good or bad. Dialectic thinker: something can be both good and bad. The word radical comes from radish which means to get to the root of the matter. So, marx is a radical thinker in that sense. He says how humans are different in our forms of communication (can communicate to. Species-being is the define features of homosapien specific things) He says because of language humans are able to create a certain kind of atmosphere/environment moods can change the environment (ex. Humans create new institutional realities, animals do not do that.