History 2501E Lecture : Economic modernization jan 12.docx
22 Apr 2012
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Book: the worldly philosophers- free trade and free markets. Free trade and equality= ideas behind political changes. New sciences being considered : e. g. statistics, chemistry etc. Can we tell how to improve, rule etc society (applying sciences to society as it becomes more secular) Positivism rejects speculation because everything we know stems from experience or observation and can be proved. Darwinism linked to hierarchy (white at top, black at bottom), justify conquests, Societies are organisms, laws of bio dictatorships and slavery. Applied to latin america and africa, colonized because they are weaker, justifies european. Term of race is a 19th century concept. Losers of competition: survival of the strongest control (for their own good) Racial and social cleansing (old, weak, sick etc= undesirable) Theories on population, resources don"t grow as fast as populations. City= civilization, order, education and architecture, imitate europe (e. g. buenos aires) Country= barbarians, wild, jungles of brazil (example), desert, pampas.
