HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nationstates, Platt Amendment, Otto Von Bismarck
26 Feb 2017
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Week one hist 1150 the modern world january 10th and 12th. The bedrock of rationalism was that the basis of life on earth was material, and that life and its components can be scientifically demonstrated, could be ordered, replicated, improved upon. Political liberalism: call for personal freedoms, curb on arbitrary power. Industrial revolution producing a: reorganization of society, better, longer, and fuller lives. F. engels, critiqued an important element of the modern from the point of view of classes and how much and who benefitted and who suffered from them. M. gandhi and f. nietzsche are other critics of modernization: gandhi, from india, talked about civilization being modern. Questio(cid:374)s o(cid:374) the (cid:862)moder(cid:374)(cid:863) i(cid:374) the moder(cid:374) world. Provide two reasons each why modernization is a positive and a negative process: positive quality of communication (invention of the internet) Week two hist 1150 the modern world january 17th and 19th.
