POLS 2520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roger Masters, Materialism
17 Feb 2020
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He presents the book as a guidance for ruling; telling rulers to ambitious. What does it mean to be accused to be machiavelli. Writes on why machiavelli is a political founder of modern thought. Achieve by design, consequences that were only achieved through fortune and. Interested in science and technology and how this is relevant to society good luck. Thinks that rulers can shape the destinies that they rule. Recognized to be the first modern political thinker. The position that nothing exists except matter; things that can be measured or known through the senses. Materialists deny the existence of spirit and they look for physical explanations for all phenomena. An approach to philosophy that regards mind, spirit, or ideas as the most fundamental kinds of reality, or at least as governing our experience of the ordinary objects in the world. Ch. 1- how many kinds of principalities there are and the ways they are acquired.
