ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Humphry Davy
22 Aug 2016
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Helps people voice their concerns about humanity in the modern day. Reason secularism (opposite of religion; taking the spirituality out of religion and bringing it into life), analysis, individualism, scepticism, science. Immanuel kant: dare to know! have courage to use your own reason! : don"t wholeheartedly believe in religious spectres, science is taking over at this time. Emergence of the scientific method and the growth of the scientific area (mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics: be aware of galileo and newton. Putting forth the idea of 2 different scientists (a passive one and an active one) Jean jacques rousseau emile: or a treatise on education (1762: humans are good by nature but are rendered corrupted by society, almost immediately life becomes awful, everything degenerates in the hands of man, nature creates, and civilization deforms. It classifies a literary work on the basis of content, form or technique genres are not fixed or rigid. A story that contains another story (or stories).
