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2018
WEEK 1. INTRO, OVERVIEW. PREFACE THRU PAGE 39. K.H.
2018WEEK 2. HEALTH, SAFETY, PAGE 39-79,157-198 K.H. Dan Intor.
WEEK 3. :“WEALTH NOW”, PAGE 79-97. D.N.
WEEK 4. “ INEQUALITY NOW”, PAGE 97-121. D.N.
WEEK 5. HUMAN FLOURISHES, PAGES 121-157, 200-322. K.H., D.N.
WEEK 6. PROGRESS SUMMARY , PAGE 322-454. K.H., D.N.
MODERATORS: KIRT HOBLER AND DAN NAGEL
20182011
1. HUMAN NATURE:ANGELS? DEMONS?
2. WHY HAS VIOLENCE DECLINED?
3. WHAT WASENLIGHTENMENT IN THE 1700s?
4. WHAT ISENLIGHTENMENT TODAY?
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR TOCAY
2011
# HOMOCIDES/100,000/YR.
2011
5000 ya THE STATE(THE LEVIATHAN)
15%
14%
<1%
24%
SIX TRENDS: 1. The Pacification Process, hunter-gatherer toagrarian 5000 yrs ago. (Millennial scale)2. The Civilizing Process. Feudal to 20 cent. Nation
states 10-50x reduction in homicide. (1/2 Millennial)3. Humanitarian Revolution, renaissance, age of
reason, enlightenment, (century scale)4. The Long Peace: since WWII5. The New Peace: since end of cold war, 19896. The Rights Revolution: since 1950-present.
FIVE DEMONS: 1. Predation. Rage/Fear/Seeking circuits. 2. Dominance. 3. Revenge. 4. Sadism. 5. Ideology. Justifies violence to obtain Utopia.
FOUR ANGELS: 1. Empathy. 2. Self Control. 3. The Moral Sense.4. Reason.
FIVE HISTORICAL FORCES: 1. The Leviathan. 2. Commerce.3. Feminization. 4. Cosmopolitanism.
5. The Escalation of Reason.
SCIENCE AND REASON 1600s
NEWTON
PHYSICAL REALM: MATHEMATICS
MENTAL REALM: PYCHOLOGY?
I AM THINKING, THEREFOR I AM.
FREEDOM
ENLIGHTENMENT 1700s
JUSTICE
REPRESENTATIVEGOVERNMENT
CHECKS/BALANCES
…BY THEPEOPLE
SEPARATION CHURCH/STATE
WEALTHMORALITY
SOCIALCONTRACT “DARE TO KNOW”
GOD IS NATURE
EMPIRICAL,SCIENTIFIC TRUTH
ENLIGHTENMENT PLUS THE SCIENCE OF…ENTROPY EVOVOLUTION INFORMATION DISSIPATED
(POTENTIAL) ENERGY
COUNTER ENLIGHTENMENTS: THE BIGGEST ENEMY 0F ENLIGHTENMENT IS ENTROPY