PHL323H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Forces, Autarchism, Sophist
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The rise and decline of individuals the crisis of reason is manifested in the crisis of the individual, as whose agency it has developed. the illusion of their eternity-is being dispelled. "i)i. e individual once conceived of reason exclusively an instrument of the self. Now he experiences the reverse of this self-deification reason has become irrational and stultified. Social power is today more than ever mediated by power over things. The more intense an individual"s concern with power, the more things will dominate him, the more he lack of any individual traits, and the more will his mind be transformed into an automations of formalized reason. The fortunes of the individual has always been bound up with the development of urban society. The city dweller is the individual par excellence. The great individualists who were critical of city life, such as rousseau and tolstoi, had their intellectual roots in urban traditions.
