GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: International Criminal Court, Silk Road, Profit Motive
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Raging debates on our current condition political, cultural and environmental interconnections, and flows that make. Global studies an inter-disciplinary understanding of different dimensions. Globaility signifies (cid:498)a social condition characterized by tight global economic, most of the currently existing borders irrelevant(cid:499) The renaissance 14th 17th c. ce. The protestant reformation 16th 17th c. ce. The scientific revolution 16th 18th c. ce. Democratic and socialist revolutionary crises 18th 20th c. ce. The industrial revolutions 18th 19th c. ce. Colonialism 15th ? c. ce: individuals and society as a (cid:498)social contract(cid:499, mechanization, urbanization, mobility, rebirth of europe, elevation of the place of the human. Humanism: equalitarian ethos, bureaucratically administered states, individualized faith/belief, growth of scientific consciousness. The idea and doctrine of progress: linear concept of time and human advancement. Development of a secular outlook: separation of politics and religion, privatization of faith and belief. Primacy of efficiency and calculation: accountability and profit motive. The logic of modernity on a global scale.
