IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Class Conflict

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Geological Sciences
• Course: IUF 1000
• Professor: Stephanie M Boothby

Document Summary

Exploring conflicts that arise between people and societies when seeking to achieve a meaningful life for oneself and/or others. Responses to injustice, what forms those responses take. What causes people to sacrifice their own happiness for the welfare and betterment of others. Humanity, family, morals, law: our responsibility towards family, conflict that surrounds morals. Great advances in art, poetry, philosophy, and technology (cid:862)wester(cid:374)(cid:863) (cid:272)ulture a(cid:374)d (cid:272)i(cid:448)ilizatio(cid:374) Polis/city-state: political and cultural life: relatively independent, sense of identity. Shifts from small kingdoms that evolve into aristocratic oligarchies that evolve into democracies social unrest. Devastating to life and society largest scale alliance among city-states. Moral obligation for her family or to god. The right of a(cid:374) i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual to reje(cid:272)t so(cid:272)iety"s i(cid:374)fri(cid:374)ge(cid:373)e(cid:374)t o(cid:374) her freedo(cid:373) i(cid:374) order to perfor(cid:373) personal obligations. Creo(cid:374) de(cid:373)a(cid:374)ds o(cid:271)edie(cid:374)(cid:272)e to la(cid:449) a(cid:271)o(cid:448)e all else. (cid:862)there is (cid:374)othi(cid:374)g (cid:449)orse tha(cid:374) diso(cid:271)edie(cid:374)(cid:272)e to authority(cid:863) Antigone (cid:271)elie(cid:448)es the state la(cid:449) is (cid:374)ot a(cid:271)solute, the gods" rule out(cid:449)eighs the state.