POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Sigmund Freud, Perpetual Peace, Rationality
11 Apr 2014
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There"s been a change in the conception of self. We started with what the enlightenment was about- finding abstract reason, which is outside of history. Enlightnment"s conception of man is a timeless quality: our biggest abilities were not a result of time. Individually, we could use our reason to determine what was correct. 19th century: who are we are depends on where we are: this is already shift in the enlightenment conception. What is the meaning and goal of this history that we"re in: optimism. Faith in progress, both scientific, technological and political. Kant in perpetual peace: talked about individual logic and rationality that would lead to advances. Hegel + marx: logic is no longer as individualistic. Their stories are about societies which determine our level of progress. Humans find themselves in a cold humanistic universe with no reason for doing anything, we feel like a machine just trucking along.
