EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Geocentric Model, Sentenced
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Sentenced to imprisonment but he recants and is placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. So for the last years of his life galileo could not express himself publicly on the motion of the planets/earth. But recall: he did smuggle out his great last work to have it published in holland. Ideas serve as a superstructure to cover up and/or justify the underlying economic structure, masking its injustice. Ideology makes what is artificial/historical seem natural . I"m using ideology here not just in a general or vague sense as a set of ideas . Rather, this is a technical term in marxist analysis. It refers to the way ideas and culture mask and thereby allow or naturalize underlying economic structures (forms of production) Major question: is there any escape from ideology? (this is also crucial for marxism) An ideology, i. e. , a belief system established to maintain the power of the status quo.
