PHIL 3080 Lecture 2: Modern European Philosophy 2016-09-19
11 Jan 2017
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Lecture idea for a universal history with a cosmopolitan purpose. Big philosophical idea emerged in end of 18th, beginning of 19th centuries, with two main components: different relationship between law and the people it governs. Before, different classes of people have different types of law. There was a shift to equality within law equal distribution of freedom to everyone. Law does not give rights; it protects the rights. No longer monarch in relation to subjects; it"s a whole self-governing, democratic body republicanism in france (republic is the public domain) Law is no longer something that just governs you, but that ensures your rights: emergence of the idea of reason equally endowed in us as individuals. End), and if we can know the end of something, we can know its nature (aristotelean: you can"t know anything until you know its end: we need to know human nature. Nature vs. human nature: former has a movement, changes.
