POLS 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Limited Government, Empirical Evidence
21 Jan 2019
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Introduction - truth and the western political tradition. Universe obeys no logic, is uni ed and random. There are truths > we use the to make sense of life and the universe. Socrates is being tried for impiety (disregarding accepted gods) and corrupting the youth. He doesn"t deny what he has done when being tried. The truth is normally binding on human beings. Truth in an engagement usually signals the end. e. g. in a legal case. The truth is normally not questioned > we tend not to think about it. Morally obligated to follow what is deemed true. The consent of the governed. e. g. the bill of rights tells us the things the government can"t do to us. Rights limit the power of the government; protection against state power. We must treat humanity as an ends and not a means. We must treat humans as an end due to their ability to reason.
