James's working notes from Western Civ class

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Thoreau

Notes

  • similar to KierkegaardKierkegaard
    Kierkegaard
    Notes

    took Hegel's historical progress model and applied that to people

    Parts of a life

    aesthetic - devoted to the things around you
    ethical - rule following
    religious - existentially committed to the infinite


    life is about dealing w/ internal contradictions in yourself
    inwardness - who you are underneath the external layers that others see

    critizing the very superficial state churc...
    , focuses on concrete problems of living in the world as a human being
  • into science, nature
  • developed epistemology of embodiment (a person is not just a mind; the body plays into how we know things)