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58507710Auguste ComtePositivism, a philosophy of human intellectual development that culminated in science. Wrote The Positive Philosophy.0
58507711Charles DarwinPublished On the Origin of Species, The Descent of Man, Newton of Biology, worked with Alfred Russel, had the idea of natural selection and Social Darwinism.1
58507712On the Origin of SpeciesFormulates the principle of natural selection, explains how species had changed or evolved over time.2
58507713The Descent of ManApplies the principle of evolution by natural selection to human beings. Humans changed the way they did in response to the requirements of survival.3
58507714Natural SelectionOnly the fittest organisms in an environment can survive long enough to reproduce.4
58507715Gregor MendelAustrian monk, worked on heredity, worked with genetics with peas.5
58507716Herbert SpencerBritish philosopher, society progresses through competition, advocate of evolution, believes protecting the weak results in human kind losing.6
58507717Social DarwinismThe term for evolutionary ethics and similar concepts applied to humans.7
58507718Thomas Henry HuxleyThe great defender of Darwin, declared the physical process of evolution was at odds with human ethical development. Was a critic of social Darwinism.8
58507719William RoentgenXray.9
58507720Albert EinsteinHad his first epoch making papers on relativity.10
58507721RelativityTime and space exist as a combined continuum, time and space depend on the observer as well as the things being measured.11
58507722Werner HeisenbergCreated uncertainty principle, physics.12
58507723Uncertainty principleThe idea that subatomic particles behave randomly rather than of exact determinable cause and effect.13
58507724Sigmund FreudAustrian physiologist, worked with hypnosis, thought sexual matters were significant in his patient's problems, worked with dreams, wrote The Interpretation of Dreams.14
58507725Interpretation of DreamsConcludes that dreams allow unconscious wishes, desires, and drives that had been excluded from everyday conscious life.15
58507726IdInternal Desire16
58507727egoWhat emerges when superego moderates Id17
58507728superegoSocieties expectations etc.18
58507729Carl JungA swiss whom for many years Freud regarded as his most promising student. Questioned the primacy of sexual drives in forming personality and in contributing to mental disorder. Human subconscious contains inherited memories.19
58507730Collective unconsciousnessPart of the unconscious mind that describe how the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes experience.20
58507731David StraussPublished the Life of Jesus, questioned historical evidence about Jesus. Critical of religion.21
58507732The Life of Jesusquestioned historical evidence about Jesus22
58507733Charles Lyell's geologySuggests that the earth is much older than the biblical records.23
58507734Friedrich NietzcheWrote The Birth of Tragedy, national aspects of human nature are as important and noble as rational characteristics. Criticized democracy and Christianity. Embodied heroism and greatness.24
58507735Thus spake ZarathustraWritten by Nietzche, criticized democracy and Christianity. Announced death of God and proclaimed the coming of the Overman who would embody heroism and greatness.25
58507736UbermenschAnother word for the Overman, who would embody heroism and greatness, had to do with Nietzche. Interpreted as some mode of superman or super race.26
58507737Beyond Good and EvilIdeas of not what is good and what is evil, but what the sources of judgment of what is good and what is evil. Morality is a human convention, has no independent existence at all.27
58507738Increasing State EducationCompulsory free education provided by the state by the end of the 19th century.28
58507739Pius IXIssued Syllabus of Errors, which set the Catholic Church squarely against contemporary science, philosophy, and politics.29
58507740Papal InfabilityThe First Vatican Council made this. It means that the pope is always right on spiritual matters.30
58507741Leo XIII Rerum NovarumDefends private property, religious education, religious control of marriage laws, condemns socialism and marxism. Employers should treat their employees justly.31
58507742Max WeberSocial theorist, impressed by role of reason in human society. Saw bureaucratization as feature of modern social life. Opposed Marx's concept of development, where Marx reasons capitalism driving force in social life. Noneconomic factors might account for major developments in human history. Wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.32
58507743BeaucratizationCorporations and government lead to a bigger beaucracy. howver u spell it. Involves division of labor as each individual fit into a particular role in much larger organizations.33
58507744The Protestant Ethic and the spirit of CapitalismWritten by Weber, traced much of the rational character of capitalist to the religious doctrines of Puritanism. Worked to assure that they stood among the elect of God.34
58507745Georges SorelWrote Reflections on Violence, people do not pursue rationally perceived goals but are led to action by collectively shared ideals. Revolutionary syndicalism.35
58507746Reflections on Violencewritten by Sorel, warns about trends of conservatives and parliamentary socialists who could ally against capitalism. People do not pursue rationally perceived goals but are led to action by collectively shared ideals.36
58507747Arthur de Gobineaureactionary french diplomat, enunciated first theory of race as major determinant of human history. Wrote Essay on the Inequality of the human races.37
58507748Essay on the Inequality of the Human RacesTroubles of western civilization as the result of long degeneration of Aryan race. Gets diluted through cross breeding.38
58507749Houston ChamberlainWrote Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Anti-Semetic.39
58507750Foundations of the Nineteenth Century.Biological determinism through race, through genetics human race could be improved and develop a superior race. Racism like nationalism. Race is greater than individual kind of like nationalism.40

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