SOC 3118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hyperreality, Postmodernity, Simulacrum
31 Jul 2018
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09/12/17 (1) the time of the life course. The rise of modernity: the enlightenment: the 1600s had a different ideology one steeped in supernatural politics. God became the explanation for anything and everything: alchemy, angelology, demonology; the great chain of being; divine. Ausa sapere dare to think: worn out by 200 years of this bickering, warfare, dissension, and fanaticism, Thinkers of the enlightenment: rene descartes: the father of modern rationalism i think, therefore i am. ", francis bacon: scientific method systematic observations and careful experiments would lead to correct principles. 09/12/17: baron de monstesquieu: despotism could be avoided if political powers were divided. What is the enlightenment: a desire of rationality, logical, consistency: the universe could be understood through reason, everything in nature could be explained by natural laws universal truths found through observation. Conclusions reached by intelligent debate not force. A desire to create social standards based on reason not tradition.
