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Contract, Trust, And Resistance In The `Second Treatise', Rory J. Conces
Contract, Trust, And Resistance In The `Second Treatise', Rory J. Conces
Philosophy Faculty Publications
If there is a single problem that has dominated political thought for the past four hundred years, it is the tension within the body politic between the will of the collective, as it is expressed by those vested with authority and power, and the will of the individual. Among political theorists who have examined this problem, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke viewed this potentially ruinous tension in radically different ways. In his Leviathan, Hobbes presents the problem of how we are to conduct ourselves as a society, an apparent dilemma whose horns are anarchy and servile absolutism. Either we …
The Semblance Of Ideologies And Scientific Theories And The Constitution Of Facts, Rory J. Conces
The Semblance Of Ideologies And Scientific Theories And The Constitution Of Facts, Rory J. Conces
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Responding to those who want to consign ideologies to the dustbin of history, I make what is perhaps an unexpected connection between ideologies and scientific theories to ward off what may amount to be an assault on the former's cognitive value. Although there are significant differences between ideologies and scientific theories, particularly in terms of objectivity and openness to innovation, I find that they are similar insofar as each is a cognitive fund which allows us to make sense of the world that we live in. Part of the sense-making quality of scientific theories is that they allow us to …