SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Religious Text, Limited Government
13 Jan 2017
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It matters especially for americans because locke provides the intellectual underpinnings which guided the founders of the united states in the declaration of. Independence and in setting up the basics of our government. Useful because of what locke can tell us about human behavior: how do we understand the way individuals behave in a collective whole, a hierarchy. Identify a certain number of beliefs about human beings and about the relationships of individuals in the collectivity. Goes to the very core of the way in which americans tend to think about those things. There, by chance, he met a set of people who, every friday night, lit candles which they kept lit through saturday night. This is a very typical jewish ritual yet they were catholic. When he asked the spaniards why they did it, they replied that their mother did it and their grandmother did it. These people had families prior to the spanish inquisition who were.
