BAR150: Ideas and Identity- The Sociological Imagination- Imagined communities- Essay Writing Assignment

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Essay Writing Assignment:
Task:
Choose one of the readings you have studied in the unit (topic 1) and write a short reaction/response piece. This should be your own critical response to the reading. You might want to consider the following:
1. What is the author’s main argument or point?
2. Are there problems with the author’s argument?
3. Does it have strengths and/or limitations?
4. Is there a counterargument to be made?
5. Is the text useful/important?
In this assignment it is not necessary for you to draw on sources other than the reading you are responding to. Your response must be submitted as a formally written piece, not in dot-point form; and it must be appropriately cited and referenced from your chosen unit reading.

Article 1

Foundations of the Modem World View

And so between the fifteenth and seventeenth cemuries, the West saw the emergence of a newly self-conscious and autonomous human being-­curious about the world, confident in his own judgments, skeptkal of orthodoxies, rebellious against authority, responsible for his own beliefsand actions, enamored of the classical past but even more committed to a greater future, proud of his humanity, conscious of his distinctness from nature, aware of his artistic powers as individual creator, assured of his intellectual capacity to comprehend and control nature, and altogether less dependent on an omnipotent God. This emergence of the modem mind, rooted in the rebellion against the medieval Church and the ancient authorities, and yet dependent upon and developing from both these matrices, took the three distinct and dialectically related forms of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution. These collectively ended the cultural hegemony of the Catholic Church in Europe and established the more individualistic, skeptical, and secular spirit of the modem age. Out of that profound cultural transformation, science emerged as the West’s new faith.
For when the titanic battle of the religions failed to resolve itself, with no monolithic structure of belief any longer holding sway over civiliza-
tion, science suddenly stood forth as mankind’s liberation–empirical, rational, appealing to common sense and to a concrete reality that every person could touch and weigh for himself. Verifiable facts and theories tested and discussed among equals replaced dogmatic revelation hierar-
chically imposed by an institutional Church. The search for truth was now conducted on a basis of international cooperation, in a spirit of disciplined curiosity, with a willingness, even eagerness, to transcend previous limits of knowledge. Offering a new possibility of epistemological certainty and objective agreement, new powers of experimental prediction, technical invention, and control of nature, science presented itself as the saving grace of the modem mind. Science ennobled that mind, showing it to be capable of directly comprehending the rational order of nature first dedared by the Greeks, but on a level far transcending the achievements of the ancients and the medieval Scholastics. Notraditional authority now dogmatically defined the cultural outlook, nor was such authority needed, for every individual possessed within himself the means for attaining certain knowledge-his own reason and his observation of the empirical world.

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