Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tuberculosis, Scientific Method, Social Evolution
12 Nov 2012
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Concluded that hegel even though he tried to synthesize the opposing forces of the enlightenment and romantic conservative reaction, but he ends up siding with the romantic. If reason is the prime mover, wherever it is that is as good as things can get. His work has conservative elements in it- reason is in charge of history- he is anti-atomist- His second story: about method, how to analyze things: dialectical logic: No thing is- something is never what it appears to be because it is always changing, always in process. All things are in the process of becoming actually what they always were potentially. Can call any thing a thesis but it is in the process of destroying itself. When the anti-thesis is sufficient, the tension gets resolved through the creation of the next. It is step by step generating some kind of tension that will eventually destroy it.
