DETERMINISM VS. NIHILISM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Please make notes!
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DETERMINISM
• The Earliest Idea on the role of the nature• Aristotle• Hippocrates• Montesquieu• Mercantilism, Physiocrats• Military stategists• Human life and interaction of states
determined by nation
Nihilism
• Late, modern idea
• The human society, economy can be free from the pressure of nature
• Exlporers,
• ‘Heroes’
• Ideologies, modernisation
• Determinism and Nihilism on the Dutch example.
Absolute vs Relative Dependency
• Absolute dependency: serious questions of living, surviving, but less importance today
• Relative dependency: small details, increasing importance today
• Example of relative dependency: the importance of air
How we depend on air?
• Earlyer:• To dry• Energy (wind, sun)• +Today:• Elements, gas• Transmission of
messages, (mass)communication
• Transport• Info gathering +spy• Pollution emission• Warfare• Clean air as input of
economy with value• Etc.
Nation Determined by Nature
• National symbols• Coat of arms, anthem• Famous animals, nature,
vegetation• Food• Argiculture• Natural Resources• Foreign Trade• Borders, neighbours• Defence, Warfare• Life style, jobs
Possibilism
• One can not overestimate the importance of the nature
• One can not underestimate it• Key areas nowadays:• International trade• Environmental protection• Economy (your heating bill, energy)• Risks (earthquakes, tsunami, etc.)
Homework (for All)
• Upside down:• How the International Relations and
Politics determined your life and your environment:
• Collect examples of politically influenced names of your life (school’s name, streets, institutes, statues, monuments, parades, celebrations, holidays, town names, military zones, heroes etc.)