ACMA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Socratic Method

• School: UTSC
• Department: Arts, Culture and Media
• Course: ACMA01H3
• Professor: Sarah Lynn Kleeb

Document Summary

Give citizens the tools to critically analyze the society they live. Questioning authorities, niorms and dominant structures of power. Humanities study of human culture in all forms (example: ethical) Pursuing knowledge for the sake of knowledge. Creating informed and critical citizens in our society. Empirical sciences quantifiable aspects of the universe. Humanities as a method of interrogation ( theory ) Critical skepticism; to view the norms and/or assumptions as a problem. Evaluative evaluating ideas or theories for their overall value or solidarity. * empirical science show us what we should think about the world .