ACMA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Martha Nussbaum, Deconstruction, Critical Thinking
10 Feb 2017
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Humanities offer clues but never a complete answer. They reveal how people have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual sense of a world in which irrationality, despair, loneliness, and death are as conspicuous as birth, friendship, hope, and reason. The study of human culture in all its forms, pursuing knowledge for the sake of knowledge, creating informed and critical citizens. Empirical sciences (the quanti able aspects of the universe: answers to a speci c set of questions, knowable) v. humanities (as a method of interrogation theory ) Analytic: meticulous examination; critical: problematization of norms and assumptions; Interpretive: explanation of meanings; evaluative: appraising ideas and theories for their overall value or coherence so what? . A theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope, and the distinction between justi ed belief and opinion . The role of university: create (research, discourse), store, transmit, examine and critique (knowledge is never nished or complete ) knowledge.
