The following material is from the technology and culture faculties of GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: NARRATIVES -MODERNITY…master narratives and meta-narratives of history, culture and national identity -POSTMODERNITY…suspicion and rejection of master narratives…instead there are local narratives and the deconstruction of master narratives GRAND THEORY -MODERNITY…faith in a GRAND THEORY, totalizing explanations in history, culture and science, to [...]
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-Jean-Paul Sartre understood man to be a USELESS PASSION -what Sartre meant is this…a person’s life is filled with many passions…he feels strongly about many things…he cares deeply about life but these passions are ultimately proved to be USELESS and FUTILE, without enduring significance, since all of our deepest concerns and aspirations will end in [...]
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-the Renaissance was not so much “the rebirth of man; it was the rebirth of an idea about man”…it was a change that placed MAN IN THE CENTER of all things, freeing man to become a law unto himself -Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s concept of AUTONOMOUS FREEDOM led to the Bohemian ideal in which the HERO is [...]
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THE NATURE AND ORIENTATION OF ULTIMATE REALITY -God is…merely a product of man’s creation and is the mirror of all that man would aspire to be but is not…an illusion, an imaginary being who helps us cope with an unbearable life…dead, who died of old age or people just got tired of putting up with [...]
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