SOC 3104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Begging The Question
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Fealty: loyalty, lands remain theirs, but the ruler gets a cut and the pledger has to back them in war. Only nobles own land, everyone just lives on it- divine right of kings (backed by the church) Circular argument: tautology- these nobles own land because god made them special, if he hadn"t then they wouldn"t be able to do what they"ve done. They live by different morals, they exist to control everyone else ex: duke can take a cow from peasant because it is within his rights, and is not stealing. You a(cid:271)ide (cid:271)y this (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause that s just how it is and always has (cid:271)een: essence of tradition. You do what you do because you have taken the information available to you to determine with your own thought that what you do is what you should do: essence of reason.
