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1
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Why does Kant think enlightenment is slow? Where is this view found?

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The higher-ups impose “docile creatures” into ignorance…in ‘What is Enlightenment?’.

2
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What is a key item of the Democratic revolution? What does this declare? What’s the caveat?

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1776 Declaration of Independence; “All men are created equal”; but it was made by white men, didn’t include slaves.

3
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What is the definition of enlightenment, according to Kant?

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When man emerges from tutlelage he has put on himself - an inability to understand without other’s direction.

4
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What are 3 key wishes of enlightenment?

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No hereditary monarchy

Law for and of the people (self-government).

Have an enlightened ruler.

5
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What did Mary Wollstonecraft write? What did it say?

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‘Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ = women’s rights should have discussion and explanation.

6
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What tried to make sure a mass violation of Enlightenment’s natural rights did not happen again like it did in the Holocaust?

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).

7
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What legislation indicates that slavery still needs to be legislated against?

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The Modern Slavery Act of 2015.

8
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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?

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1865; the ‘Middle Passage’, given that human conditions were especially bad.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).

9
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What link is there between myth and feral children? (example).

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Statue of the children of the God of Mars, founders of Rome, being raised by a she-wolf.

10
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Who wrote a Latin-titled work that set out the idea of feral humans? What did he term them?

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Carolus Linnaeus wrote ‘Systema Naturae’ - feral humans = ‘homo ferens’.

11
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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?

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Late 18th-Early 19th C; Jeanmarc Gaspard Itard.

Without civilisation and society, humans are more stupid and weak.

12
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What did Jean-Jacques Rousseau believe distinguished man from other social beings? Why is the feral child arguably an anomaly?

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Believed that man was social, while other beings merely existed in a ‘state of nature’.

However, arguably the feral child blurs these boundaries.

13
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Why is the term ‘feral youth’ arguably relevant today?

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Because politicians still use it to describe the young working-class.

14
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What (and when) was the last country to introduce women’s’ suffrage?

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2005 in Kuwait.