RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Veneration Of The Dead, Meritocracy, Human Nature
14 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
World view important in decisions their taking, shift of values. 1949, jaspers: something happens globally and has the same values and ideals everyone. Birth of all religions that nourish humanity: first time we try to define us as human what makes us human. One thread: compassion draws us all together regardless of views. Can find humanity through compassion, let your ego go. What we understand of humanity, not changed. Collection of things, show as a transmitter. Main person who created it but still collection of old works, his works, and new works. Moral foundations laid down, political and social engagements: right wing achieves the same as the left, both lead to problems. Had no son, married to a young woman. Unusually tall, did not fit with common people: educator in life, teaching was important, had an unhappy life left a global legacy was in fact not a failure in life.
