POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Master Class, Stata, Stiff Upper Lip
23 Nov 2014
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Monumental allows us to glorify the past and recognize what was wrong in it (where it failed) We are a culmination of all past crimes. Critic we must be critical of history; throw off the burden of the past (condemn it) 3- it makes us feel disconnected from the world because we realize how little we know (of this monumental pile of history) 4- it can lead to a jaded relativism. 5- people become ironic and cynical: spearheads our morality, we invent things, but we are unsure of their actual effects, a fact is always stupid, there have been no more dangerous change than the emerging philosophy of the. It"s a critic of the origin of these concepts. If we look at the origins of a certain moral, practice, or belief, and we see its genesis in the interests of certain people, in a way we"ve destroyed that moral beliefs claim on us.
