IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Individualism, Walden Pond, Conservation Movement
6 Sep 2016
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Seeking the good life: knowing nature, knowing ourselves. Think of a place to go to escape: Human connection with nature is necessary for intellectual and moral stability. Refers to a celebration of nature as a spiritual place. All knowledge transcendental which is concerned not with objects but with our mode of knowing objects. kant. Fear that the open spaces and wilderness will be lost during the 19th century industrial. Individualism: power to know nature on your own, through spiritual understanding. Questions what he believes society has come to accept as the good life. He identifies the illusion of fulfillment in industry. A force that connects people with the divine through nature. The good life is lost among the busy schedules of everyday routines. Daily life is too hectic to be meaningful. Place: space + human culture (shared history, philosophy, spirituality, aesthetics, cultural symbols) & natural landscapes. We all have the divine ability to create our own world, chose our reality.
