From Enlightenment To Engineering Newton has discovered God’s Clockwork Machine How does Culture manage that discovery?
Encyclopedia Definition The term also more specifically refers to an intellectual movement, "The Enlightenment, " which is described as being the use of Rationality to establish an authoritative ethics, aesthetics, and knowledge. This movement's leaders viewed themselves as a courageous, elite body of intellectuals who were the leading world toward progress , out of a long period of irrationality, superstition, and tyranny which began during a historical period they called the "Dark Ages"
Why Should We Care? We probably don’t l But, concept of relationship with land does affect the cultural management of resources. l Who owns the planet? (The Greeks, The Romans, The British, America, The Chinese …) l
To the Ends of the Earth! l 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)
Land As Personal Property Sacred view No such thing as private property; concept makes no sense l Shared view Mutual survival depends upon re-usability of the land/resource base l Private Property View l