SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Determinant, Socratic Dialogue, Grundrisse

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Sociology week four: lecture: freedom, mastery, progress. Studied empirical world separate from roman catholicism. The way we think about the world around us: influenced by german. There is a limit our understanding is limited allows us to set up ethical instances to set up our life. Natural scientific tradition and social science tradition enlightenment. About creating human freedom a period of transition and be free from tradition. (many things reinforced hierarchy and tradition many wanted to be free from this tradition, pope, constraints of nature, etc. ) Freedom depends on mastery mastering the natural world and then start mastering the social world. Progress: our understanding of the natural world growth of knowledge, freedom, and our mastering in both the natural and social world. Pursuit of individual"s interest would meet interests of all. Become perfected and make cultural goods, necessities, and even luxuries or art work, which would be traded.