SOCI 3630 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Age Of Enlightenment, Michel Foucault, Rationality
13 Jul 2019
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The enlightenment: an age that started roughly from the english revolution of 1689 and culminated in the french revolution 1789age of reason. Originated in europe (western europe) but disseminated to other parts of the world. Kant"s definition: the enlightenment is man"s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. ^-masculinist component: people with knowledge were mostly men. Their viewpoint was shaped by their own subjectivities. Immaturity: the inability to use one"s understanding without another"s guidance. ^-this immaturity is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one"s mind without another"s guidance. The immaturity is a result of one"s unwillingness to understand and learn. Sapere aude: dare to knowdare to question, dare to challenge. Have the courage to use your own understanding is therefore the motto of the enlightenment. Economic transformations taking place throughout europe and elsewhere. Urbanization was also taking place: concentration of large numbers of people in urban centres.
