POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Public Sphere, Folk Art, Cosmopolitanism
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Not about standing over against the world. Harmony of the total person: sense and reason, duty and inclination come together naturally. Why are people actually moral, laws are exterior. Philosophy and principle is not where we get our morality: it is a matter of moral education, which is tied to forms of socialization. We are not fundamentally competitive, egotistic, self interested etc. A healthy society fosters reciprocity among members. His theory of language is his most influential: believes reason and language are interdependent. If you can"t communicate your thoughts, then they"re not thoughts: language is constitutive of self, no thought prior to language, language in turn is tied to culture, no escape from culture, the prosaic and the poetic. Thinks poetry is more important than prose. Art: historical conditions mold aesthetic conceptions (anti classical) Views at through a quasi technical way. Herder rejects moral universalism (cultural particularism), b. c our moral judgments are predicated to our language, culture.