ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Thomas Hobbes, Commodification, Defeasible Estate
Document Summary
Honour the wisdom of providence: god abandoned crusoe on the island for a reason. Educational learning for children through the book. Rousseau: handbook of natural education: crusoe surviving in the wild and making things out of natural materials. Economic narrative: crusoe s interest of constantly making his fortune. Parable of middle class: hard-working, interested in property, wanting to make money. Parable of british colonialist: creating a colony from land that had originally belonged to a native people. Parable of natural labour and alienation: creating shelter etc. The book was an economic narrative: spiritual and financial. Financial because of crusoe s goal of gaining more wealth. Labour: crusoe was always at work. (the devil finds work for idle hands. ) Emphasis on use: crusoe found ways to integrate objects and re-use. Things that make life bearable, the naturalization of civilization: crusoe making a home and a farm. Frugality/looking towards future: saving objects, reusing; always expecting to get off island.
