RS121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ecological Crisis, Total War, Totalitarianism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RS121
• Professor: Marybeth White

Document Summary

What is unique about the modern world: modern-societies seen as human-made, ancient societies seen as created by god/ a greater force, therefore if we made society, we can change it it is a project. Believe that society can perfect and improve itself. Committed to making societies better, moral obligation: the myth of progress, modern societies are revolutionary societies. Democratic revolution: ideology of modernity/revolutionary society. Restructuring the entire society to an abstract plan. A vision of what a society should look like. Psychology: constantly replacing older forms of things with new ones (capitalist society) The demand for new consumers, goods, productions, markets, etc. Capitalist enterprise: the way we build society creates victims in our hierarchy but we do not recognize the, aleksander solzhenitsyn argues that shakespeare"s villains only killed dozens because they. Ideology allows us to kill on a million-ist scale had no modernist ideology suffering of these people.