HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Perspectivism, Dominate, Antihero
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Ordered system can now access reality through human intellect: locke, bacon. Progress throughout world, linearly organize humanity world of freedom. Volk (people): herder, totality of culture individualism, cannot separate human out: human"s ability to think, human constitution needs integration, thinks all interaction is based on action. Cannot just be reason, needs to be intertwined. Can experience from nature than otherwise, learn from nature: back with the natural world. Melancholic soul mediate, modify, life leads us to our graves. Sturm und drang (storm and stress): overwhelming emotions, goethe love cannot fulfill suicide. Responses to edmund burke, women"s rights, progress, equal improve self. Percy: should be emotional people who govern society. Frankenstein modern prometheus: gave humans fire by stealing it from zeus: gothic: bundled into it. Story of a monster emotion over reason, slave to his own passions: cannot disobey them acknowledge passions to get better of reason. Reason is subject to emotional & irrational passions.