HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hebrew Calendar, Industrial Revolution, Analytical Skill
15 Dec 2017
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History 1dd3 - ideas in movement, a survey of ideology. 1: analytical skills, relationship between objectivity and subjectivity, general vs. speci c, difference between opinion and substantial interpretation. Centuries and the european enlightenment of the 18th century: the enlightenment was both a period and a movement, the belief that nature could be understood in a rational way not faith based, there are laws of nature . If the universe could be explained in this way, so could society. 4: let market forces self-regulate the economy, laissez-faire. Individual self interest seen as more important than the state. Is this a radical document: no - return to the past, adapting past legislation, president has similar powers to the monarch. 4: rights and liberties enshrined in the constitution are to be kept, american revolution looked to the past (constitutional monarchy) and to the future. Individuals are represented, only for men though. (republic).
