SOSC 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Hugo Grotius, Public Sphere, Invisible Hand
6 Jul 2017
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Social justice and law class 8 november 23rd, 2016. Charles taylor in this book is addressing what he has understood as the central problem of the human sciences: the origins of modernity, as a set of institutions, ways of living and even as asocial dissatisfaction and fracturing. These institutions and ways of living have had an almost global impact. One of the major critique of his work is that he is only describing modernity in the west. Back in 1500 god was implicated in all areas of social and political work. He is trying to understand what transformation has happened and when we understand the transformation, we will understand why we modern people prioritize certain things and why we feel we need a sense of purpose. Why we feel a particular about the people we have never met (empathy for people we have never met just because we see their conditions in the media.
