REN R260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Straw Man, Utopia, Mother Goddess
19 Sep 2016
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The idea of wilderness reading, chapter 1, and fallacies: Unwarranted extrapolation: the tendency to make huge predictions about the future on the basis of a few small facts, usually involves a statement that a particular action will lead to either total disaster or ultimate utopia. Slippery slop arguments: that some event must inevitably follow from another without any rational argument or demonstrable mechanism for the inevitability of the event in question. Red herring: argument given in response to another argument, which is irrelevant and draws attention away from the subject of argument, we can"t worry about the environment, we"re in the middle of a war. Primitive dichotomy: civilized: advanced, ordered, better, smart, primitive: chaos, nasty, brutish, short, stupid. Something went wrong in the transition from palaeolithic to neolithic: If we are in nature, we have a connection with the web of life (being unconnected makes us less human). Wilderness has been dominated by us (we want to control it).
