PHLB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Ecology, States Of Germany, Christian Mortalism
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Relying on emotions like awe, mystical wonders, very restricted set of emotional responses. Attitudes towards nature: the greeks: historically, ancient people had a religion and world was full of spirits. Rejected animalist idea and taking the spirit out. Nature in plato"s works: epimetheus means hindsight, epimetheus signed various powers to each animal so that the animals wouldn"t go extinct but he didn"t give human beings any special powers, prometheus means foresight. Shame: concept of temperance and justice: knowing how to make rules: human beings are very distant from the other animals. Your going to die and no matter what happens it wouldn"t be a bad thing. Anglo-american land use attitudes: 3 approaches, goal is to show why in the us , germanic influence. Tribes that took over europe removing cults and invading roman empire. Freeman in this tribe were the most common class. Earls: big powerful guys and were followed around by freeman.
