HISD14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Creative Destruction, Philistines, Unst
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B/f this time period, they assumed that there was a creator; turn of the century this is no longer taken for granted (not thought about) 19th century: balance shift; seen in the explicit ways people are challenging religion. 17th - rare to have out-atheists; god was left to the side, atheism not seen in lit. ; god didn"t need to be mentioned in how polit. syst"s worked etc. Relig. trying to just. itself thought philosophy - fact that it has to justify itself = weakness. Creative powers of god seemed to be displaced by nature and humanity. Complexity/org. /darwinianism didn"t need a god to determ. course of things for things to happen. Darwin: leaves god to decide in terms of actual argument, but his syst. made god seem unnec. ; any pop. democratic rev. there was an attempt to delegit. monarch (god didn"t preordain/give special duties or special relat. to princes/queens/kings etc.
