Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Human Nature, Reductionism, Syllogism
10 Jan 2017
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William of orange comes in to take charge. Gets ride of absolute king in exchange for a chosen king. Above is contextualized century that hobbes and lock live in. 1691, two treatises of government is published. Revolution: world turned upside down (180, historically: reversion/return (360, e. g. civil war, restoration, (cid:498)glorious(cid:499) revolution are all arguably returns. Note of several kinds of revolution: religious, political territorial state (emerged as strongest) Originally primarily roman catholic church, religion, etc. Movement to city state, city leagues, territorial/sovereign. Treaty of westphalia proof of victory of the sovereign state. Desire to reduce nature to systematically connected laws. Going down to the smallest possible element (reductionism) 17th century comprehensiveness due to better ability to: scientific observe the world. Links everything to gravity as an explanatory force for everything else. Human nature: speaks as (cid:498)mankind(cid:499) motivation, all close enough to being the same in terms of ability, interaction, and.
