SOC-4040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Melanoma, Christian Anthropology, Nevus

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC-4040
• Professor: Wentworth

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Durkheim developed his ideas of autonomy over the course of three books: suicide (1897), moral education (1902), and the elementary. Forms of the religious life (1912), and there was much study and some writing between these three major works. We (cid:374)eed to see (cid:449)hat du(cid:396)khei(cid:373) (cid:373)ea(cid:374)t (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:862)auto(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455)(cid:863) first by seeing what he did not mean: (1) not inherent autonomy, (2) not free will, (3) not some determinism. In writing about autonomy, durkheim rejected the notion of an inherent or fundamental autonomy. In this belief, autonomy was simply a feature of our species and did not need to be explained; it had no cause beyond its species-specific existence. I(cid:373)ila(cid:396)l(cid:455), (cid:373)ost do(cid:374)(cid:859)t feel (cid:272)o(cid:373)pelled to explain human bipedalism, our lack of fur, our opposable thumbs, or the fact of la(cid:374)guage. The(cid:455) a(cid:396)e (cid:862)just(cid:863) so(cid:373)e of the (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396)isti(cid:272) featu(cid:396)es of us humans. Free will is a similar idea to (cid:862)i(cid:374)he(cid:396)e(cid:374)t auto(cid:374)o(cid:373)(cid:455)(cid:863) (cid:271)ut with different connotations and a different function.