ACMA01H3 Final: Final Exam Study Notes
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The study of human culture in all its forms. Pursuing knowledge for the sake of knowledge. The 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 socratic ability to criticize one"s own traditions and to carry on an argument on terms of mutual respect for reason. The ability to think as a citizen of the whole world, not just some local region or group. The narrative imagination, the ability to imagine what it would be like in the position of someone very different from oneself. Questioning authorities, norms, and dominant structures of power in our society. The more i learn, the less i feel i know . Humanities is analytical, critical, interpretative, and evaluative. Compared to the empirical sciences, speculative thinking is offering new ways to think.
