SFII-UF 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Inequality, Scientific Revolution, Social Contract

• School: New York University
• Department: Social Foundations II
• Course: SFII-UF 102
• Professor: Yousefzadeh Mahnaz

Document Summary

Part 2 on the discourse of inequality, what is the origin of social inequality, begin with rousseau. Why it"s difficult to ask this question or answer it. Scientific revolution (100 years) since the 17th century is not equipped to ask the kind of questions or respond to them in this state of nature. Looking at things and figuring out what they are. Does not allow to look at the mind itself (consciousness) Natural philosophers have not been able to come up with what is spiritual to man. Account for sense, why we feel pain/react, not yet account for their consciousness. Philosophy establishes the kinds of questions that we care about. The moment we stop caring, is the moment we stop existing. How to be a being that cares: the first man who after enclosing took it to say this is mine and found people who are foolish enough to believe him were the founders of civil society.