ANTH 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Circular Reasoning, Anti-Clericalism, Social Philosophy
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Epistemology: the way we know, theory of knowledge. Reification: treating abstractions as empirical phenomenon, making something/treating it as real. Hegemony: a dominant group or culture with an ideological construct behind it (i. e. incensed: to be very angry colonialism and england) Augment: add to or increase something to make it greater. Abrogate: to repel or do away with. Alimentation: provision of nourishment or other necessities of life. Tautological: circular logic (tautology: when the argument includes the premise in it"s. Internuncial: transmitting impulses between two different parts conclusions) Retrograde: return to a previous state or position (move backwards) More an epistemology than a theoretical perspective. What makes his position radical for 1860 is that it"s anti-clerical though by today"s standards it"s both fairly illogical and conservative, clearly what eventually became today"s libertarianism which is very much far-right. Spencer thought he was darwinian, (i. e. social darwinism) even if he really wasn"t in his philosophy.
