POLS 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Ownership, Antithesis, Dialectic

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3040
• Professor: Rebecca Hall

Document Summary

Idealist ideas shape the world, primary moving force. What makes us human is that we know (kant), for hegel that we know< how we know. (cid:1) (cid:1) A consequent disdain for pluralistic, subjective approaches to philosophy for the discovery of truth (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Different vantage point, critique of substance + form. We don"t invent laws of nature we discover them. Social (structure) + individual (internal) + universal right no one has it perfect yet dialectic relationships, working towards universal right, destabilizing relationship = all effect each other (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) People look at the parts= deduce and miss the essence (house has a door, not everything that has a door is a house) (cid:1) Truth in motion, truth in the world (not external to it), truth as. Method to study the state, scientifically understand point of book. Material things are a reflection of the idea.