HIST 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: In Private, Scientific Method, Socioeconomics
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Hobs has dark view of nature but locke feels like human nature is good. Locke wants to protect life, liberty, and pursuit of property. We are born with tabula rosa so we are shaped by our perceptions so education is very important. In state of nature, locke says we have no security in our nature. In issues that need to be decided we tend to go towards the majority. Freed of religion to an extent (some religions should be better but be tolerant of all) Voltaire is a religious man who believes in god but not how the institution provides it. Nonage: intellectual immaturity; the dependency of somebody else. Kant wants us to leave donage even though we enjoy it. Rebellion wouldn"t work because if people aren"t enlightened to properly govern. For ex for private spheres don"t be in the military and be like we shouldn"t be. In public sphere you"re explaining your own understanding your reason.
