HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Encyclopedia, Scientific Method, Wild Beasts
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View of time: time pieces seen as status symbols, no universal marking of time (no calendars, rural areas: time seen as cyclical (sunrise, noon, sunset) Year also cyclical (planting time, harvest time, Christmastime,: history (if it existed) was just about the local area, not like today, often understood little of the world outside of their home, most peasants were illiterate; couldn"t read newspapers or letters. Middle class world: in this urban world, people are more educated, literate and could tell formal time. A monarch or senate (rural areas were poor) Punctuated by feasts, fasts, and religious holidays. Year was just a series of religious events. Emanuel kant winner of 1783 essay contest in berlin: he was prussian: his motto was dare to know , laziness and cowardice are the reasons why the greatest. Do we dare to question that which is told to us? proportion of men after nature has released them form alien grasps, remain immature.
