From Enlightenment To Engineering

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From Enlightenment To Engineering

• Newton has discovered Gods Clockwork Machine ?
  How does Culture manage that discovery?

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Encyclopedia Definition
The term also more specifically refers to an
intellectual movement, "The Enlightenment," which
is described as being the use of
to establish an
ethics, aesthetics, and knowledge. This
movement's leaders viewed themselves as a
courageous, body of intellectuals who
were the world toward
, out of a
long period of irrationality, superstition, and
tyranny which began during a historical period
they called the "Dark Ages"
Rationality
authoritative
elite
leading
progress
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Why Should We Care?

• We probably dont
• But, concept of relationship with land does
  affect the cultural management of resources.
• Who owns the planet? (The Greeks, The Romans, The
  British, America, The Chinese )

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To the Ends of the Earth!

• Under the reign of just laws, personal liberty
  and property have been secure mercantile
  enterprise has been allowed to reap its reward
  capital has accumulated in safety the workman
  has "gone forth to his work and to his labour
  until the evening" and, thus protected and
  favoured, the manufacturing prosperity of the
  country has struck its roots deep, and spread
  forth its branches to the ends of the earth.
  (Edward Baines 1835)

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Land As Personal Property

• Sacred view ? No such thing as private property
  concept makes no sense
• Shared view ? Mutual survival depends upon
  re-usability of the land/resource base
• Private Property View ?