PSYC18H3 Midterm: MIDTERM LECTURE NOTES.docx
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Human sciences study culture though acts of emphatic understanding and interpreting the. I. e. vince carter making 50 shots in 1 game- said that it felt like a lake (meaning the basket felt much bigger) Throwness: you were thrown into this life as the person you are and this gender. Age of discontinuity is when the industrial revolution began with machinery being used. Our experience of space and time is plastic. We are adapting to the world, dealing with it, seeing if it"s beautiful. In the middle ages, nothing changed and you weren"t changing; 1500"s. Feelings: you feel good or bad about certain things and the ideas of good and evil are rational judgements that we make about the world. Geisteswissenschaften ( human sciences ) study culture through verstehen (acts of empathic understanding), and hermeneutics (interpreting the artifacts of a world filled with meaning). artifacts of a world filled with meanings. Emphasis is placed on wisdom and understanding the life-world.
