PSYCH 4150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: John Stuart Mill, Emergence, Expressive Aphasia
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Nature is opaque because we did not create it, thus it cannot be fully understood. Different cultures are different, and that is important. So there is a difference here between the natural world (which is not a product of human activity) and the human world: the human world is clearly meaningful to humans. Examples: the human made world involves language, tools. Overall, vico was lobbying for a distinction between the natural sciences and the. Humanities: culture is part of the humanities, so to understand humans we need to understand the human phenomena. Mechanistic thinking cheapens the real quality of human experience. The best way to do this is to experience nature (or engage in spiritual discovery). Presented scientific ideas in the form of literature. With frankenstein: basically the dr. tires to create life and he ends up making frankenstein with electricity, questioning if humans should tamper with the fundamental laws of nature.
