POLI 1001 Lecture : Lecture #3
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Who they were, where they came from, where they go. Disobeying taboos- getting kicked out of tribe. Oral stories in nature people in existence, both collectors of stories, explained who are the gods, where we are from, etc. Homer and moses are probably the two most influential: individuated/i. Now instead of kinship we speak of it as association. Examples of contemporary tribalism and contemporary individuated societies. Modern species are: rational, literate, lodonyths (instead of medonythos),read rather than. Tribal and individuated live side by side but not always peacefully. We are social creatures, we need each other. The whole we lost, the "we", the attempt to recapture and recreate. Self-conscience, search for moral order, rational, attempt to create speak. moral/right order. We lost something and want it back. Moses goes to the top of the mountain and brings back down the law.
