ECON 1P91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Invisible Hand, Bitcoin, Thermodynamics

• School: Brock University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 1P91
• Professor: Cornelius Christian

Document Summary

Science: is the quest to prove false statements about reality. We"re trying to prove every statement false. (carl popper) Build society upon reason and natural law, not catholic church doctrine. All men are born equal (rejection of old conservatism). If the enlightenment did not happen, we would not have democracy today like the charter of rights and right to vote, human rights, scientific clarification. It was a rejection of old school conservatism. John locke claimed that we are all equals and fought against the coservatists. Science: comes from christianity-roger bacon, francis bacon, descartes, The reformation (1517): protestantism encourages literacy and. It was about science but ultimately came from religion. Two aspects of mlk: first was religious expects (reading the bible), second was. Salon of europe: group of people would discuss philosophy. If it weren"t for the american rev, we wouldn"t have democracy. Result: those who further others, further themselves. Not the same as greed is good".