Last essay I read: Locke
The last essay that I read it's actually a book called "Essay
on civil government" or "Second treatise of
government" from John Locke, written in 1689. The book talks
about how we can organize ourselves as a human being following the reason,
consequently he talks in terms of "natural law", "natural
state", "war state" and "civil state" with the
objective of giving us some considerations about what the human being should
and shouldn´t do for living among other human beings. In particular the author
critiques the absolutism of his époque.
Well, in fact this is not part of the "obligatory literature",
but a lot of teachers use to touch the arguments of this author (like in
Epistemology, Classical sociological theory, Political philosophy etc.),
especially because it's considered like a pillar for understanding how it has
been formed the society and how it works now on days.
I haven't finished it yet, but I liked a lot, in general I find really
interesting the constracutalist philosophers (Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and
Jean Jacque’s Rousseau). I find that this book have a lot of arguments that can
be analogized on some contemporary situations (like the liberty of having
private property), and on the other hand a really crazy arguments that can be
kind of extremist in this days (like you can kill another man who attempts
against your person, or your property, by the dictate of "natural
law" for giving the example to another humans about not acting against
reason). For this is that also I would like to read more about philosophy, I
believe that philosophy is one strong tools that can help us really well to
understand how we interact each other in different kind of ways, and this is
something that Sociology needs a lot.
Overall, when we're talking about study in general terms i like to
organize using a lot of colors, post it, taking a lot of notes in class,
recording classes and prioritize the things that I believe are more important
for the subject or for my formation as a professional.
