SOC250Y1 : feb 16
Document Summary
Kings and pharaohs claimed they were sons of the gods or related to them and they would return to them after their death. Seems to be a strong connection with feuerbach"s reflective theory and durkheim"s notion of society as god. The changing social imaginary-the changing ways in which people view heavens and hells is going to be formed by the way in which they perceive the existing realm. There seems to be a fundamental distinction between 2 varied forms of how people concieve of the after life. Anthropocentric imagines a paradise that conforms with fundamental human desires for pleasure and fulfillment. This paradise is described with physical language- beautiful streams, fertile trees, great architecture, wild animals appear calm and docile. Heaven is what human life would be like if it was free from all the limits of biological existence. It will be an existence in a beautiful place with continuing fulfillment according to feuerbach model.
