SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Montesquieu
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Midterm- mark for identify the theorists, and then 2 marks for what the theoretical idea is (like 2 lines. 2nd midterm cumulative but skewed focus on the 2nd half: main ideas, montesquieu: relativism: you can"t understand anyone fundamental ultimate truth, you hve to understand things from different perspectives because everyone has a different reality. Because he is so strongly a relativist, he is not a complete relativist, he does believe in some universal ideas: fear is something that we all experience. It"s our fear, or fear or fear that leads us to be intolerant. If we can be more tolerant we can minimise these experiences here. He talks about the love that exists b/w the brother and sister, this is the only example in the entire book where there is a genuine love, it"s questioning, wow they actually love each other. But we won"t be able to appreciate that because it"s too extreme for us (letter 67).
