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11 Cards in this Set
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The Origin of Species
1859 Darwin |
Natural selection acts by accumulating slight, successive favorable variations (no sudden modifications)
Natural selection improves inhabitants of each country only in relation to their co-inhabitants |
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The Descent of Man
1871 Darwin |
Conclusion=Man descended from highly less organized form
Belief in god/moral values have been the most changing |
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Social Statics: Liberalism and Social Darwinism
1851 Herbert Spencer |
Introduces idea of social Darwinism, no point in helping poor/struggling because they are the “weakest” so just let natural selection do its thang
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The Communist Manifesto
1848 Marx + Engels |
aim of communists=overthrow bourgeois supremacy, conquest political power by proletariat, formation of proletariat into a class
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I. The Duties of Man
1875 Mazzini |
• Should strive for the moral improvement/progress of humanity
• Moral improvement of humanity through sticking with your beliefs, acts of charity for someone not of your own land “love your country! Our country is our home, a house god has given us" |
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II. Documents of Italian Unification
1845 Cavour |
“No people can attain a high degree of intelligence and morality unless its feeling of nationality is strongly developed”
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Excerpt from “Blood and Iron” Speech
1862 Bismarck |
Blood + Iron = military resources+determination
talks about unification of the German territories realpolitik |
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Militant Nationalism,
Heinrich von Treitschke 1862 |
Characteristic of Germans=desire to traverse the worldwide ideas regarding intellects of all nations/times
german character=depth of thought, intellect (on war) idea of perpetual peace=illusion, naïve idea |
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Foundations of the Nineteenth Century: Racism
Chamberlain 1900 |
Races of mankind differ nature wise and in extent of their “gifts”
Germanic/aryan races=most highly gifted |
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Judaism in Music: Anti-Semitism
Wagner 1850 |
• Says Jews have “remarkable stubbornness”
• Jewish music=outlandish and unpleasant, squeaking, buzzing snuffle |
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Wilhelm II at the Swearing In of the New Recruits in Potsdam, November 23, 1891
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Tells recruits they are meeting military obligation, swearing loyalty till death, this feeling will grow with time/maturity, have trust, it is a privilege/honor
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