Why does Kant think enlightenment is slow? Where is this view found?
The higher-ups impose “docile creatures” into ignorance…in ‘What is Enlightenment?’.
What is a key item of the Democratic revolution? What does this declare? What’s the caveat?
1776 Declaration of Independence; “All men are created equal”; but it was made by white men, didn’t include slaves.
What is the definition of enlightenment, according to Kant?
When man emerges from tutlelage he has put on himself - an inability to understand without other’s direction.
What are 3 key wishes of enlightenment?
No hereditary monarchy
Law for and of the people (self-government).
Have an enlightened ruler.
What did Mary Wollstonecraft write? What did it say?
‘Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ = women’s rights should have discussion and explanation.
What tried to make sure a mass violation of Enlightenment’s natural rights did not happen again like it did in the Holocaust?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
What legislation indicates that slavery still needs to be legislated against?
The Modern Slavery Act of 2015.
When was the 13th amendment passed by the US House? What part of the slave trade triangle was particularly concerning and why?
What else has tried to counter slavery?
1865; the ‘Middle Passage’, given that human conditions were especially bad.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
What link is there between myth and feral children? (example).
Statue of the children of the God of Mars, founders of Rome, being raised by a she-wolf.
Who wrote a Latin-titled work that set out the idea of feral humans? What did he term them?
Carolus Linnaeus wrote ‘Systema Naturae’ - feral humans = ‘homo ferens’.
When did Victor live? Who tried to educate him in social rules and language?
What did that man’s work ‘The Wild Boy of Aveyron’ say?
Late 18th-Early 19th C; Jeanmarc Gaspard Itard.
Without civilisation and society, humans are more stupid and weak.
What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau believe distinguished man from other social beings? Why is the feral child arguably an anomaly?
Believed that man was social, while other beings merely existed in a ‘state of nature’.
However, arguably the feral child blurs these boundaries.
Why is the term ‘feral youth’ arguably relevant today?
Because politicians still use it to describe the young working-class.
What (and when) was the last country to introduce women’s’ suffrage?
2005 in Kuwait.