HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heredity, Atheism, Social Stratification
14 Mar 2016
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Urban world (middle class: cities growing, new class of people, merchants, artisans, lawyers, doctors, clerks, more educated - greater literacy, awareness of politics, political and social change, embryonic force. Reading: enlightenment is a break from immaturity, it is believed that men are lazy because they pay for others to use their understanding. Rules and formulas are permanent immaturity and only few will think for themselves: immaturity is the inability to use one"s understanding without the guidance from another, i need not think of only i can pay (pg. Seminar: frederick the great - who he looked up at - absolutist, progress - passing knowledge down. Reading: all people have an understanding of natural law yet not all may show it, why so many deformed minds, natural law is an instinct for justice which appears in the entire universe. Lecture: exaggerated christianity - blamed for many things - wild beasts.
