PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thrownness, Age Of Enlightenment, Renaissance Humanism
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Three personal themes: adapting to our worlds, finding meaning in our worlds, finding beauty in our worlds and expressing ourselves in our worlds. Concept of thrownness we are thrown into a particular world at a particular time. Consider the following three worlds: umwelt: surrounding physical/organic world, mitwelt: world with others, eigenwelt: world with oneself. Time moved very, very slowly: very few societal changes tools did not change for a million years. Strange people would appear and disappear: only about 6-8000 people existed in europe around this time. Which means that they were very spread out so that there was less chance at innovation (too busy hiding from predators) During the middle ages, life changed very slowly. Values changed very slowly, and so meaning would change very slowly. Jump forward now to the 19th century and what baudelaire (1821-1867) called the age of.
