POLS 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Positivism, Perpetual Peace, Liberal Feminism
6 Apr 2016
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Doesn"t factor in things against the dialectical means of globalization. Thus is far to positivistic (cid:1) (cid:1) Knowledge is important insofar as it progresses humanity. Parameters that make up humans matter: rational creatures. In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual. Person will achieve there maximum in the maximum of humanity. We have to work towards this end. We are selfish but also political and social. Wants freedom (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) thesis 6 man is imperfect. Man is an animal which, if it lives among others of its kind, requires a master. He thus requires a master, who will break his will and force him to obey a will that is universally valid, under which each can be free.
