KP141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Empiricism, Francis Bacon, Collectivism
6 Dec 2017
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What you need to know: competition. What are the challenges to competition: concept of merit. What you need to know: political and philosophical context foe the industrial revolution. How to economics factor into modernization: dimensions of pre industrial/pre modern sport. What are the major di erences with modern sport. The emergence of modern sport: 19th century phenomena: western europe & north america, transformations of traditional games to modern sports, philosophical transformation on the importance of physical activity. What is pre-modern/pre-industrial sport: local, regional variants of games with a physical component, irregular schedule, form and practice, deeply agrarian in nature, attacked by social elites- political and religious. The 1st industrial revolution (1760-1840: replace manual for machine labour, transportation and communication revolution, result on scienti c revolution. Primary virtues: liberty, reason, tolerance: the emergence of (classical) liberalism: natural rights. Political ideology: maximize individual liberty on society. Economic theory : laissez faire and free markets. Consequences of the enlightenment: political freedom.
