PSCI 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Universal Declaration Of Human Rights, American Exceptionalism, Eleanor Roosevelt
21 Apr 2017
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The danger of focusing on science too much and being blinded by it. People began to question science and if it was always moral. Everything is interconnected and nothing is independent of itself. Everything is a product/result of something else. Although science helped free of us darkness and unnecessary death it brought with it ethical problems. Science has no boundaries and so the ethical limitations are basically non-existent. Post-modernism aims to target this issue of losing morality and ethics. Nothing is independent of power - all claims to knowledge are also claims to power. Instead of looking at something in isolation, you look at it and try to figure out the things that contributed to it (what led to it, not what is it) Try to get the full picture instead of focusing on the actual facts of the event. Eg; punk movement in music - how economics, poverty, politics, etc. contributed to it.
