CS315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Public Reason, Middle Ages
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Quality of print what we see while we are reading has an afect on our brain and transforms the way our brain works. Handed down knowledge in european middle ages, and the roman church= all powerful. If you wanted to know the truth it was what the priest states everything is dependent on the church and the handing down of tradiion. Most part, litle quesioning of these beliefs. Highly conservaive society not moivated by transportaion, and moivaions of beliefs come from others and the church no individualism. Renaissance and end of middle ages introducion of the press. Prining press didn"t cause the changes like macluen and ong state about technological determinism the technology itself causes us to think in a diferent way. Marx only focused on economic transformaions otherwise it had no impact. Many transformaions, and ability to pin point the press as the determining factor is very simplisic.