PSCI 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chorea, Pass Laws, Hearing Loss
25 Jun 2018
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Department
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Anuj Sharma 100987657
PSCI 3307 - Politics of Human Rights
Instructor: Peter Atack
2018-05-23
Lecture Five
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Words, concepts, persons, places:
-Post-modernism, Michel Foucault, hermeneutics, heuristic, George Grant, technology,
Aktion T-4, eugenics, Adolf Eichmann, Hannah Arendt, Khmer Rouge, killing fields,
resentiment, Year Zero, epistemology, discipline, Michael Ignatief, exceptionalism,
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Friedrich Nietzsche, Jim Carroll
Introduction and Learning Outcomes:
-Introduction to the concepts and methodology of postmodernism
-The danger of being blinded by science and the ethical collapse of modernity
The Roots of Postmodernism:
-From a European tradition of critique
-Understanding reached by not merely criticizing and refining a theory but by
understanding the unacknowledged assumptions, context and history of a theory
-From a tradition of hermeneutics
When of Postmodernism:
-Stale deadlock of the Cold war
-Communism’s grey sterility versus the gaudy empty capitalism of the West
-Revolt of ’68
-Both diseased relics of the dream of the Enlightenment and drive to science and the
mission of modernity
Problem of Modernity:
-Science and reason offer an escape from the darkness of superstition and tradition
-Science leads to wonders of technology
-But also, to an end to ethical limits as science and technology have no boundaries
-Disease of both left and right, remake humanity through science
Technology and George Grant:
-We have suppressed questions about ethics as the compulsion of technology directs our
future
-Technology: knowing and making, understanding defined by our ability to re-create and
reproduce results
-But technology as process becomes compulsive, once we know how, we do without
being able to ask, “But is it just, is it good.”
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Document Summary
Post-modernism, michel foucault, hermeneutics, heuristic, george grant, technology, Aktion t-4, eugenics, adolf eichmann, hannah arendt, khmer rouge, killing fields, resentiment, year zero, epistemology, discipline, michael ignatief, exceptionalism, Universal declaration of human rights, eleanor roosevelt, fyodor dostoevsky, Introduction to the concepts and methodology of postmodernism. The danger of being blinded by science and the ethical collapse of modernity. Understanding reached by not merely criticizing and refining a theory but by understanding the unacknowledged assumptions, context and history of a theory. Communism"s grey sterility versus the gaudy empty capitalism of the west. Both diseased relics of the dream of the enlightenment and drive to science and the mission of modernity. Science and reason offer an escape from the darkness of superstition and tradition. But also, to an end to ethical limits as science and technology have no boundaries. Disease of both left and right, remake humanity through science. We have suppressed questions about ethics as the compulsion of technology directs our future.
