HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Unconscious Mind, Rational Egoism, Neurology
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Concerned with the efects o the enlightenment and romanicism on the modern world. World clock developed because of trains: mechanizaion. Humans became dependant on factories and machines. An anxiety about the fact that machines are replacing human beings labour: the rise of the masses. Populaion of london doubled between 1841 and 1891: urbanizaion. Get a divorce from nature: secularizaion. Atheists worried about what would happen if religion disappeared. Fyodor dostoyevsky (1821-1881: the crystal palace in russia. A symbol of human progress, especially socialism. Atacks the belief that people act selishly and irraionally. Bloodshed is bad, but we do it anyway. Describes utopia as a chicken coup: buildings holding dirt poor people. Existeniality is just an anxiety, but human beings can sill choose their own path. Claimed posiivism, raionalism and utopianism were not atheist dogmas, they were too chrisian. We are sill deeply adhered to our chrisian faith, even if we claim to be.
