HUMAN 1A Lecture 6: Week 6, HUMAN 1A
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The course of empire is a cynical view of the world. Course of empire is hunters, to pastoralists, to glorious civilization, attack on this civilization and then its ruins. Progress of the arts and sciences regresses the humankind. A non religious retelling of the book of genesis, having to do with human curiosity, and it is an expulsion from the garden of eden. Back in ancient times, curiosity was considered a bad thing, not a good thing. Enlightenment thinkers believe that curiosity is a good thing. Cole and rousseau both believe that curiosity isn"t a good thing, and. In the savage state , you have mainly natural landscape, most of the picture is dark. There are boats on the bottom implying that maybe war and trade were important. The shepherd and farmers live carefree lives. We have the origins of the sciences, bc the guy is drawing something on the ground. Nature is still predominant, and a stonehenge looking figure.
