PSCI 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Modelling, Natural Justice, Counterforce
14 Apr 2016
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The european wars of religion: corruption of the medici papal court, martin luther and the german reformation. English civil war: feudalism to capitalism in rural england, henry viii and the unification of church/state, elizabeth and age of science and exploration, puritan revolution and restoration. A new science of politics: the end of divine right in england, the slippery sands of custom and tradition, the firm foundation of reason and science, the state of nature as a thought experiment . The laws of physics a single system of science; uniform material world of matter in motion. Atoms moving in a void; no great chain of being; god as a watch-maker no telos; or formal cause; no higher ideal realm . From the simple to the complex man as a system of levers, pulleys and springs. Empiricism and sense impression the basis of all knowledge; no innate ideas; no vision of the good .
