[ACS 103] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (76 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Arts and Contemporary Studies
• Course: ACS 103
• Professor: Melissa Tanti

Document Summary

*video: reza aslan slams bill maher for facile arguments about muslim violence. Painting a religion with a single brush. Two or three examples to justify a generalization: bigotry. Unsettling particularity at works (indonesia vs. isis) - extremist. We have a compulsion for easy answers, but that unsettling particularity keeps argument more. The humanities focus on critical thinking and empathy teaches young people to live compassionately with others while also providing the necessary skills to solve problems in a complex world imaginative thinking. Technical skills for realities of life and relationships. This modernization is on the back of cutting out humanities. P. 11 - distorts liberal values, more time consuming to incorporate other people"s views. Scientific methodology, generalization and abstraction, opposed to any emotional or intuitive knowledge. Value of emotional responses which is very contrary to a scientific method. P. 18 the foundation of all the technique of doctors the personal is untrustworthy, but it is the foundation.