PHILOSOPHY - Lesson 7

• What is a society?

  A group of people or organizations binded by common ends, values, or interests.
• Individuals and society are interdependent on each other.
• Hunting-Gathering: Gets resources from the wild.

  • Nomadic - No permanent address. Stays in one place until resources deplete.
• Pastoral and Horticultural: Still nomadic.

  • Domestication of animals and plants as their source of food, clothes, and transportation.
• Agricultural Revolution: 10,000 years ago. Permanent settlement.

  • Mesopotamia - Tigris and Euphrates
  • Indian Civilization - Indus River
  • Chinese Civilization - Yang Tze and Huang Ho
  • Egypt - Nile River

  All civilizations started near rivers for irrigation.

  Abundance of silt which makes plants grow healthier.
• Industrial Revolution: 1760s, Great Britain, Europe.

  1.. Different inventions and innovations.

  • Person and animal-based became machine-based.
  • Improved transportation.
  • Increased life expectancy.

  2. Manufacturing

  • Rise of jobs.

  3. Urbanization

  • Migration of people to work in cities caused overpopulation.
• Post-Industrial Societies

  • Overflow of knowledge and information (Key to Power).
  • Services