ART 9B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 39 pages long!)
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government, obamacare, surveillance, marriage equality, drug laws: drone attacks, syria, nukes, the politics of culture, culture has a lot to do with how we act or behave towards politics, economics Living in the present: forgetting history of disagreement, new distractions. Worlding and mind: generalizations and specificities, real and virtual, time, memory, and history, knowledge domains/disciplines. Ideas that originate in europe: eastern, more nuanced in generalizing the relationship between the mind and the body, more unification between the cosmos and the human body. Video: beyond good and evil (about 9/11 era) Other binary models: absolutism vs. relativism, absolute distinctions are very clear, firm and permanent categories (e. g. good and evil, relativism can change, not permanent, political candidates usually line up between these categories. Idealism vs. realism: correspond roughly with the views of orthodox and unorthodox. Idealism more abstract, universal: philosophical idealism, big ideas, e. g. American dream: realism things that are concrete, e. g.
