GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Tabula Rasa, Human Conditions, Classical Liberalism
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Neo-colonialism: domination by means other than district rule. Post-colonialism: ongoing psychological and social effects of colonialism on colonized projects. Civil war did not end racism and discrimination nor lynching or slavery. Jim crow laws and forced labor camps jay proliferated after civil war. Traditional forms of agricultural slavery still exists in many parts of the world (migrant farmers) Empirical methods for acquiring knowledge- use of controlled experiments. Collecting data through observations babylonian mathematics count in units of 60 to produce circle, hour/understand fractions; allowed them to predict ellipses. People now think for themselves medieval world view. Disease and death came early and often. You were born into your place in the order. Charity was ok, but trying to change the divine oder of the universe, and your place in it, was hubris, a sin against both god and king. Optimism could get your head cut off! great chain of being: god, pope, king, nobles, men, women, children, .
