HIST1601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Inequality, Universal Law, Erasmus Darwin
HIST1601 Lecture Week 11
Previous:
• Modern French revolution
• Macron
• BBC article
• Representatives all classes and ages
French Revo:
• ‘ise of itizes
• Social inequality
• Power play
• Rose to positions of great power but however fell
• Struggle to survive and gain control
• Powerful would survive and weaker fall by the wayside
• Not just animals but humans as well
• Hierarchy among humans
David Attenborough Video
Introduction:
• Creationism
• Darwin helped changed ideas
• Hero to some
Background:
• Scholars tries to understand
• Universal law
• Human nature/ freedoms – enlightenment
• Some revolutionary peoples trying to grab power
• England – Industrial, steam power
• Eege of oey lass
• “uial of the fittest
Darwin:
• Wedgwood family – major British company
• Grandfather interested in evolution
Natural Theology:
• Desire what is found in the bible
• Natural wonder
• Gloy o Gods eatio
• Did not displace God – as with Scientific Revo
• How wonderful the Book of Nature was
• God being the clockmaker
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• Intelligent designing mind
• Connection between clock and the world
• Solar system works like clockwork
Great Chain of Being:
• God – Non-Being
HMS Beagle:
• Dais ship
• Observation and using the senses
• The age of Reason
• Logic/ pattern behind it all
• Laws to explain what was being observed
• Made way to Australia
Darwin in Australia:
• Blue Mountains
• Time in Tasmania
• Indigenous Australian
• Fuelled ideas that wrote in Origin of Species
• Natural selection
• Platypus – saw in natural environment, one of the first
Transmutation Notebooks:
• Kept many books
• Refers to changes
• Branches of tree – evolutionary tree
• Essay in 1844 – transmutation
Darwin:
• Account of trip
• Voyage of the Beagle
• Number of editions
• Married cousin – large family
Voyage:
• White as ude
• Had to iilize people
• Savages
• Great need for improvement
• Went into racial
• Controversial
• Special were immutable – not changing
• God created and stays the same
Malthus:
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Document Summary
Previous: modern french revolution, macron, bbc article, representatives all classes and ages. Introduction: creationism, darwin helped changed ideas, hero to some. Background: scholars tries to understand, universal law, human nature/ freedoms enlightenment, some revolutionary peoples trying to grab power, england industrial, steam power, e(cid:373)e(cid:396)ge of (cid:858)(cid:373)o(cid:374)ey(cid:859) (cid:272)lass (cid:858) u(cid:396)(cid:448)i(cid:448)al of the fittest(cid:859) Darwin: wedgwood family major british company, grandfather interested in evolution. Natural theology: desire what is found in the bible, natural wonder, glo(cid:396)y o(cid:374) god(cid:859)s (cid:272)(cid:396)eatio(cid:374, did not displace god as with scientific revo, how wonderful the book of nature was, god being the clockmaker. Intelligent designing mind: connection between clock and the world, solar system works like clockwork. Great chain of being: god non-being. Hms beagle: da(cid:396)(cid:449)i(cid:374)(cid:859)s ship, observation and using the senses, the age of reason, made way to australia. Indigenous australian: blue mountains, time in tasmania, fuelled ideas that wrote in origin of species, natural selection, platypus saw in natural environment, one of the first.
