Week 1

Being human as praxis, "unparalleled catastrophe for our species"

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the dawn of everthing

studia humanitatis

homo politicus

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homo religiousus

homo oeconomicus

Captial triggering: reward and punishment system

extending Fanons concept

ecumenically human story

consumption and accumulation for survival -> constant growth

"counterhumanism"

biological systems are self corrective

human individual

constant descriptive statements conserved

society

ecosystem

logical, selfish and unmannered

meta darwinian bioas and logos

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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?

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anatomical individual

microbial symbiosis

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non functioning without symbiosis -> holobiont

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genetic individual -> genome affected by symbiotic bacteria

immune individual -> system trained on antigens provided by environment symbiotic bacteria

evolutionary individual

chimeric genome -> animals no olonger individuals

horizontal gene transfer -> part of symbiotic relationship?

The great silence

Fermi paradox

Arecibo receiver and transmitter -> human call for connection

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