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The Age of Competition Survival of the Fittest?

The Age of Competition Survival of the Fittest?. The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him - you and I.” - Friedrich Nietzsche Parable of the Madman. Revolution of 1848. The limits of Liberalism?.

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The Age of Competition Survival of the Fittest?

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  1. The Age of CompetitionSurvival of the Fittest? The madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his eyes. "Whither is God?" he cried; "I will tell you. We have killed him - you and I.”- Friedrich Nietzsche Parable of the Madman

  2. Revolution of 1848 • The limits of Liberalism?

  3. The shifting Zeitgeist G. W. F. Hegel“the spirit of the times”The Dialectic Thesis v. Antithesis= Synthesis

  4. The 18th Century Enlightenment Universal Reason & Revolution The 19th Century Romanticism / Nationalism Chauvinistic / Imperial Exploitation

  5. Whither humanity? “Positivists” still search for order... …but is that order benign, helpful? Does finding “order” in society and nature encourage us, or depress us? Are the strong bound to help the weak, or to devour them? REVOLUTION & EVOLUTION

  6. I. Revolution and Evolution“Cosmological” revolutions Part II The past lies like a nightmare upon the present- Karl Marx

  7. A. Karl Marx 1. Reject Utopian Socialism and Liberalism- fear of self-interest- burden of “False Consciousness” 2. The Communist Manifesto1848- Means of Production “alienation”

  8. 3. Dialectical Materialism - “History…is the history of class struggle” - industrial capitalism is creating its own antithesis Social evolution is not “chaotic”, has a pattern un-Romantic; deterministic; conflict

  9. B. Charles Darwin 1. Science and exploration- Alex. Von Humboldt; Charles Lyell- ecology / geology “historical”- Transmutation of Species 2. The “Dismal Science”- Galapagos journey 1835- un-Romantic; deterministic; conflict

  10. 3. On the Origin of the Species, (1859)- Natural Selection - “place” / “niche”- “divergence”

  11. 4. The Descent of Man (1871)- cosmological revolution Samuel Wilberforce “Who’s your daddy?”

  12. 5. Implications- Social Darwinism“survival of the fittest” Racism/ Anti-Semitism Class exploitation

  13. Ecological Awareness • Scientific medicine • Anthropology

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