EUH 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dawes Plan, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jean-Paul Sartre
29 May 2017
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Philosophy: rational thought did not lead to greater human process, frederich nietzsche 1844-1900. Western civ had overemphasized rationality and stifled human creative instincts. Believed christianity was slave morality = weakness, envy, mediocrity said that god is dead. Coined the term ubermensch (super people) would come to dominate individual, savage, instinctual (these are the instincts that. Christianity was taking away: logical positivism (britain) Theology and philosophy are non-demonstrable, therefore meaningless: existentialism (continent, france) peaked after wwii. No timeless truths outside of individual existence. Individual responsibility, choice, being in the world the correct: christian revival after 1918 way. A leap of faith would bring an individual to religious reality. Based on darwin"s theory of natural selection (denied by him) Traits (physical and character) are determined by genes (if you are a criminal it is because you inherited the traits from your parents) Wanted to encourage good people to reproduce and stop. U. s. , france, germany, britain, belgium, brazil, canada, japan,
