SOSC 2570 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Three Steps

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2570
• Professor: Ted Winslow

Document Summary

Now we won"t think art requires reason: production based on a will that is grounded in reason, won"t say one thing is more beautiful than another. The only way to do that is to have interaction with others. It"s not the matter of being evil, but being foolish in your judgement. Reasonable thinking for yourself: any other type of thinking, isn"t think for yourself, rational thinking for yourself. 2) large thought: get outside your own perspective, perceive fully, take account other"s perspective, logical consistent, thought has to be consistently logical. Prejudice, the heteronomy of reason: ex/ hating others because they have a different religion, homophobic, lack of enlightenment; foolish. The greatest of prejudice is superstition: ex/ thinking people are witches, it"s not logical thinking, the idea people were running around with dinosaurs 6000 years ago is superstition. French peasants having superstition from living in isolation in mid-19th century.