SOSC 2650 Lecture Notes - Harm Principle, Public Good, Homicide
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To reform practices in soceity and to advance. Knowledge from new discoveries, inventions and explorations. In 18th century of europe was a time of peace. People had time to create art and culture, enhance cars it also led people to prosperity. 3 themes: a) people believed in progress and progress was to be tied to knowledge and science. Believed truth was universal; there was a shift to how knowledge was known 2 things of knowledge: a) texts and teachings of the church and b) classical texts; if you had neither of these texts it was devalued. New knowledge was valued and privileged; came from new inventions, discoveries and explorations; knowledge that needed to be innovative. Immanual kant: would only be enlightened if we free ourselves from our own tootalidge (the state of consistently being tutored) when you are consistently being tutored, you are not enlightened. The freedom to use our own intelligence, we.
