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Week 1 - Coggle Diagram
Week 1
Being human as praxis, "unparalleled catastrophe for our species"
extending Fanons concept
ecumenically human story
consumption and accumulation for survival -> constant growth
"counterhumanism"
studia humanitatis
homo politicus
homo religiousus
homo oeconomicus
Captial triggering: reward and punishment system
logical, selfish and unmannered
biological systems are self corrective
human individual
constant descriptive statements conserved
society
ecosystem
meta darwinian bioas and logos
the dawn of everthing
farewell to humanity's childhood
humans good or eveil (concepts to compare one another?) concepts are incomplete
christian answer once innocent now state of redemption
hunter gathered, then organisation lead to loosing original self-> bad things happened
humans selfish creatures
create laws than confine our worst impulses
all three perspectives have either have political implications, are not true, make past dull
what is inequality? concentration of wealth -> how to eliminate?
can be achieved by equal say of how to live together
give room to invient ourselves
social equality in the past only in small groups of related people
agriculture as transition from bands to tribes -> ranked societies
hierarchies emerged after adopting complex forms of organisations (large vs small)
violence in society emerge from private property and emerging hierachies
escaping tribal disadvanatges (warfare etc, violent death) by placing ourselves under common protection of action states law and police
democracy not part of the western way of thinking before the 19th century
has western civilisation has made things better, how to measure human happiness
inidginous life style naturally preferrable vs western way of living -> different sense of social equality
symbiotic view of lif: we have never been individuals
holobiont concept of biological individual
multicellular organisms - symbiosis
what is an individual?
anatomical individual
microbial symbiosis
non functioning without symbiosis -> holobiont
chimeric genome -> animals no olonger individuals
genetic individual -> genome affected by symbiotic bacteria
immune individual -> system trained on antigens provided by environment symbiotic bacteria
evolutionary individual
horizontal gene transfer -> part of symbiotic relationship?
The great silence
Fermi paradox
Arecibo receiver and transmitter -> human call for connection