SOCI 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Precautionary Principle, Social Stratification, Romanticism
15 Mar 2017
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The politician should be passionate about attainable, realistic goals and causes. This commitment must be accompanied by: a sense of responsibility: that will guide decisions and actions. Politicians will not take their decisions lightly if they understand the consequences of their actions: a sense of judgement: politicians should be slightly detached from their causes to prevent their feelings from influencing their decisions. Irrationality: irrationality is the fundamental belief that the world is irrational; there is no plain, direct, order of the world. It is a basic human reality to want and to exercise power. However, this desire could lead people to be irrational: chance/unforeseeable consequences: there are an infinity variety of chances. Modernity has created a fictitious reality in which humans can know it all and can figure everything out. Humans should not assume that they know and can predict everything: ethical irrationality of the world: ethics are the choices that we make to lead a good life.
