SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Rationality, Liberal Democracy, Law Of Excluded Middle

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1140
• Professor: Cameron Johnston

Document Summary

Transcendence of a situation move beyond, overcome something fulfilment. Nominalism the name of something is what it is rather than the word as an abstraction. Aristotle 3 rules: law of identity (a=a, law of non-contradiction (a cannot be . (negative)a, law of the excluded middle bravery |-| cowardice. Plato the truth has to be without contradiction. The truth is not the object, it is the idea. It comes from a realm of ideas (idea- ideal forms) Mill"s li(cid:271)eralis(cid:373) (cid:448)s (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e (cid:272)all li(cid:271)eral de(cid:373)o(cid:272)ra(cid:272)y i(cid:374) the prese(cid:374)t. His ideas are very scattered; he writes as if he is talking. It is about understanding the individual and social order. Utilitarian principle the greatest good for the greatest number. Concerned about the tyranny of the majority over the minority in democracy. The danger of the majority rule and the protection of the minority (try to protect the minority from the majority)