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From Enlightenment To Engineering

This exploration delves into the implications of Isaac Newton's discovery of the universe as a "Clockwork Machine," as viewed through the lens of the Enlightenment. We discuss how this intellectual movement sought to redefine ethics, aesthetics, and knowledge, emerging from the shadows of the "Dark Ages." Cultural management of resources is influenced by competing notions of land ownership, from private property to communal stewardship, impacting ethical practices surrounding natural resources. The relationship between culture and resource management remains crucial in understanding local and global dynamics.

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From Enlightenment To Engineering

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  1. From Enlightenment To Engineering Newton has discovered God’s Clockwork Machine  How does Culture manage that discovery?

  2. 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

  3. Why Should We Care? • We probably don’t • 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 …)

  4. 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)

  5. 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 

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