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Unit 7, Atlanta Compromise: pull self up by bootstraps, don't make…
Unit 7
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objective: understand intellectual changes that occurred in the late 19th century and the effect those changes had on the rise of the Populist-Progressive Reform movement in the early 1900s
Pragmatism - ideas are true only in terms of practical effects
- unless otherwise proven, personal thought makes truth
- the ends justify the means; no morality to Pragmatism
- science is the way you find truth
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Pessimism - pragmatism and science have no moral core center; without an absolute, life was indeterminate, brutish, short
- science made suspicious truth and absolutes
Atlanta Compromise: pull self up by bootstraps, don't make demand to vote so you don't get killed