ACS 100 Lecture 12: ACS Dec 1rst

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 100
• Professor: Pelkey Jamin

Document Summary

Big picture themes making specific applications to those themes. Main 4 course units- ideology and control and meaning and imagination. Ideas continue towards inquiry we are making progress in understanding things ideas fossilize as ideologies = some sort of belief a necessary tension. When a belief can be questions peirce says that is disadvantageous to growth to individual and it is immoral fixed belief = comfortable (most of us are comfort seekers) authority, tenacity, fashion, and inquiry! Humble approach, curious and attentive enough to sustain approach to subject requires desire and empathy. Northrop frye (1912-1991: sherbrooke, quebec, toronto, on. 1946: vico (1668-1744) (builds on renee descartes) The new science what we talk about as language is fundamentally figurative we assume it is propositions, facts, statements , vico argues that we are talking about much more in metaphors. Philosophy is derivative of poetry lyrical poets great bards often illiterate have fossilized into. Without imagination you do not get meaning.