Theory Review Set 3

IDST Ch 4 Perfectibility through Education: Rousseau’s Emile---and Sophy
1. Who do you think Rousseau is talking to about their child rearing practices?
2. What do you make of Rousseau’s explanation of how he would raise Emile if given the duty to do so?
3.pg. 33 what do you make of Emile’s recognition of the role of fate? How might we think of this fate sociologically?
4.What is to be the understanding of religion for Emile? What do you make of this?
5. What are the gender differences according to Rousseau? What do you make of these assertions of difference?
6. What is Rousseau’s overall point about the nature of human society by writing this extensive account of how he would raise a child?
IDST Ch 5 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
1. Explain Burke’s principles of natural subordination.
2. Explain how the Vindication of the Rights of Women is both built on and a critique of the enlightenment philosophies.
IDST Ch 6 The Romantic-Conservative Reaction
1. What was the turn in philosophic focus in the 19th century? What is meant by romantic and conservative in this context?
2. Explain Locke’s empiricism.
3. Explain Kant’s “a prioris”.
4. How is the interpretive mind different from the tabula rasa? How is it similar?
5. Enlightenment = only empiricist science can lead to true knowledge about the nature and potential of society and man because the mind is only the sum of its experiences; Romanticism = intuition, faith can also lead to knowledge about the nature of society and man because the mind is more than the sum of its experiences. The mind interprets. Explain.
6. Explain Burke’s “organic” conception of society and how it lead to his assertion that gradual reform was much preferable to sudden revolutionary change.
7. Explain why and how Burke believes that rights are not inherent of natural.