PHIL 373 Lecture 14: Jaspers Lecture_14
1 Nov 2016
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Jaspers lecture 14: cannot be done to a society but can appeal to the individual. Part 2: will in the whole: limit of life order. Individuals that refuse to be absorbed into a function. No life order is around for all time. Now state has a will of its own. Monarchy chosen by god: today its supposed to function in the people"s. Earns legitimacy will: democracy requires certain things of its citizens. Education: purpose of education is to make oneself at home in own culture, i come to be myself by taking up a culture. Part 3: culture decay: losing our historical connection (ancient greece) This time was a high point in human nature to most. We owe to ancient greece knowing what makes man all that it can be: barbarian. Originators of many ideas we still discuss. Assume they don"t speak any language: believer in aristocracy of the mind. Disappears as we become more alike: social decline.
