SOCB43H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Silent War, Alexis De Tocqueville, Materialism
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Classical soc november 23 lecture 10. In an aristocracy, what i do now affects my family in 100 years. I think about sacrificing myself for something bigger than myself. There"s always a lord above you, and so you always feel like you"re at the call of that individual. If there"s someone below you, you feel like you owe them something. Meeting occurs in public, on the battlefield. In a democracy, everyone is equal and no one accepts that someone is higher than you. Owe a duty to humanity as a whole, but that"s a very weak observation. You can"t call them because it doesn"t exist. The idea that you"re supposed to care about something that isn"t real weakens the argument. Individualism is not the same thing as selfishness. It means that the meaning in my life comes from the realization of the meaning of my life. The meaning of my life has to do with my private sphere (ie. family)
