Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Philosophy, Social Media, Atomism

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2240E
• Professor: Charles Levine

Document Summary

Since we are indifferent, everything we are, we are taught. He agrees with hobbes that we are evil, but not by nature- we are evil by our first mistake- the invention of private property. Hobbes gives us a justification of the people in charge. If we are indifferent by nature we don"t have to fear a nature of evil, but can manipulate the system to make us better than we are. Science is an important tool of reason: degrees of freedom- idea that we can make mistakes, methodologically the enlightenment people are atomists- if you critique in everything else you step outside psychologically and judge something. The enlightenment created a lot of interest as a social-physiological movement and was a cause of the french revolution. Other half of social theory: the romantic conservative reaction. Have to attack the enlightenment- idea of man and what society is. Two sources of concern: one is- the enlightenment image of man.