POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Gustave Flaubert

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Martin Breaugh

Document Summary

Refers to a thinking process that aims at evaluating; the thinking process rests upon an analysis that will take into consideration different variables/factors: e. g. history, logics, coherence, observation, relevance. Compare to predecessors, other similar situations look into context. Ignorance: not knowing something; absence of knowledge or awareness. Stupidity: the non thought of received ideas; quasi-universal acceptance of certain ideas or opinions that circulate in society. To think is to generalize and to abstract, so we must sometimes forget but we must not forget the ability to distinguish between what is essential and what is secondary.