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8. Mai 2024 · Gilding’s thesis, and that of this series, is not that we are necessarily headed toward the end of the world, or even the end of civilization, but toward a significant disruption of our economic and social systems caused by the biosphere’s loss of much of its resilience, and large swaths of the planet becoming unproductive or ...
14. Mai 2024 · Human institutions and human nature itself become accommodated to certain spatial relationships of human beings. As these spatial relationships change, the physical basis of social relations is altered, thereby producing social and political problems.
8. Mai 2024 · To the degree that a philosophical an-thropology is offered, we are served up a philosophy of history that turns on a self-referential, even tautological, conception of human nature: “The struggle for freedom represents the inner-human need to be free in terms of self-activity and human development.” For Marx, as we’ll show, the struggle for freedom is neither limited to humans ...
Vor 6 Tagen · The ambitious scope of The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 justifies a comparison with such magisterial works as Keith Thomas’ Man and the Natural World, Donald Worster’s Nature’s Economy, and Raymond Williams’ The City and the Country. (1) An urge ‘for system, order and design’ defined the unity of 18th-century thought ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Francis Fukuyama, The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (Profile Books; London, 1999), pp. 49-52. Back to (11) Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (Polity Press; Cambridge, 1991).
6. Mai 2024 · Of course there are those who want revelation to encompass both fixed human social structures and the principles that guide human freedom. But the democracy that results is always limited, and is not consonant with the full emancipation of the human mind and person. It is democracy as the ability to choose from a small buffet of curated options offered up by religious authorities. And that is ...
17. Mai 2024 · The French Revolution was a period of major social upheaval that began in 1787 and ended in 1799. It sought to completely change the relationship between the rulers and those they governed and to redefine the nature of political power. It proceeded in a back-and-forth process between revolutionary and reactionary forces.
