What Is Society Naturally?
\nHobbes: Society is violent chaos requiring a sovereign (Ruler)
\nKant: Reason grants Sovereignty to the individual
\nOIKOS: [\u201cECO\u201d]
\n\u2192 Root of word Ecology
\n\u2192 Root of word Economies
\n\u2192 Root of word Home Economics
\nGerman \u201cOekology\u201d
\nAmerican \u201c Urban Ecology\u201d
\nIs there a legitimate Culture Nature Split?
\nGreek\/ Citizen HouseHold (traditional European Structure):
\n(Ecology as related to Human Society and Structure):
\nThere is a house but there is a farm,livestock 300,000 ppl and 60,000 were actually citizens
\n(Bourgeois revolution) they encompassed the building,livestock and land.
\nMOTHER:
\n\u2192 The Household Manager
\n\u2192 The Oikos (the household) in Athens is managed by Women
\nUnder the Mother there is the SLAVES:
\n\u2192 MINOR CHILDREN: Kant is saying that under the German (prussian) state and church ppl
\nwho even think they are citizens are in fact minor children bc ppl tell them how to believe in god,
\nhow to think and what to eat etc
\n\u2192 Kant believes women are not capable of rational thought and are incapable of anything
\naesthetically profound (AKA artists or teachers) because they by nature incapable of it. They are
\npleasing (pretty but not beautiful).
\nAristotle assumes slavery is natural and the subjugation of women to men is also natural so the
\ncosmos as inherently hierarchical
\nIT IS NATURAL AND THEREFORE UNCHANGEABLE
\nSpartans versus Athenians: Spartans when men go to war the women run the household\/city
\n\u2192 In American South the great tradition identify as Spartans and Northerners identify as
\nAthenians as they are the smart ones
\nFATHER:
\n\u2192 Voting and making intellectual\/political decisions.
\n\u2192 The father is in charge of his wife and is the citizen
\nIn the traditional understanding of the OIKOS structure and European Culture is that the OIKOS
\nneeds slaves.
\nKANT:
\nStoics believe the problem w humanity is ppl think their problems are out of our control and we
\nare victims to our reactions
\nThe Passions have to be recognized and accepted but we don\u2019t lean into them and rationally
\nunderstand why we feel the way we do
\nStoicism\/Stoic:
\n\u2192 World Citizenship
\n\u2192 Spiritual, Cosmic Fire
\n\u2192 Universe is one organism
\n\u2192 Reason (Logos) Orders The Universe
\n\u2192 The Logos is intrinsic to everything
\nStoicism is rational control of your actions
\nKant assumes reason is inherent to everyone and destiny of the social world is to be in
\nharmony: SYMPATHY OF THE WHOLE aka global sympathy from cultures and the pinnacle of
\nthe enlightenment project
\n09\/06\/18
\nDialectics: Socratic Hegelian Marxist:
\nClassic book of a german school of synthetic philosophy identified with Frankfurt include Herbert
\nmarcuse
\nMainstream America environmental thoughts borrows narratives and repeats them in german
\nschool synthetic philosophy.
\nTHREE DIALECTICS:
\n– Socratic
\n– Hegelian
\n– Marxist
\nSocratic Dialectic: The professor is the overload. The master is in charge
\nThe Hegelian dialectic by Hegel thoughts : the dialectic in his version is a model of the way
\nhistory and the psyche and societies work in history. Itis very classical in the greek roman sense
\nbecause it is the total model of the cosmos both the internal of the soul and energies of the mind
\nand thinking works (philosophy) and the roman empire (why they rise and fall).
\nIt is the key to understanding why there is a dialectic of enlightenment.
\nHegel tries to put an action narrative into western philosophy. Everything is relationally in
\nmotion.
\nWe live in a society that is hierarchically arranged
\nThe importance of the synthesis, the relationships of domination we begin with are not the ones
\nwe end with and there is hope. He comes from a christian civilization and it is a version of
\nbiblical redemption and salvation. He is trained to think the shape of history is determined by
\nsuperhuman forces that end up in a better place. The biblical aspect is inside the dialectic.
\nHegel thinks there is a masya but it is collective not an individual. The people are the masya in
\nterms of social history. Hegel is an idealist.
\nWhat is the shape of modernity that has led to this impasse? Is there a sign of a synthesis or
\nnot?
\nThe difference between marxist and hegelian: THE MATERIALISM
\nMarx (materialist) criticism notion of absolute spirit and disembodiment or trans human notion.
\nMaterialistic: this discourse of history as an absolute spirit is a ploy of the master.
\nDo you actually believe there is an entity called Nature that has agency and inteligence or is
\nNature a collection of individual systems?
\nMax Weber:
\n– Sociology of Modernity
\n– Protestantism \u2192 Capitalism
\n– \u201cDisenchantment\u201d
\n– Iron Cage of Modernity
\nWeber says:
\n– Sociology Of Modernity
\n– By killing the gods (aeries or mars), by killing the spirit of war and taking away the
\nname, war is caused by humans. There are no supernatural explanations of god
\nin chrisitan sense or sprirt is hegelian sense. We loose control of those forced by
\nnot naming them anymore.
\n– Protestantism\u2192 Capitalism
\n– \u201cDisenchantment\u201d
\n– He thinks the bargain that Kant struck subconsciously was for new automy and
\npower was a benefit
\n– Weber thought turning people into numbers is a process that continues in the
\nbureaucratic state. Modern states are bureaucratic to turn you into things that can
\nbe manipulated by the system.
\n– Iron Cage of Modernity
\n09\/10\/18
\nThe Long 1960s-1955-1972
\nThe Beat Generation: Buddhism (Zen), Turn to Asian Cultures, Diane Di Prima
\nThe San Francisco Renaissance: Leroi Jones
\nGender Relations + Rules
\nRacial Segregation – Military
\nEconomic Relationship – Consumption
\nEncounter W\/Facism
\nYouth Purpose – Youth Counter Culture
\nMass Media
\nCold War
\nThe Bomb
\nThe US as World Cop
\nSecularism
\nSnyder: There is no difference between culture and nature
\n09\/12\/18
\nHermit
\nVagabond
\nShaman
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