Said literature will then be applied toward self-analysis of this writer. The melding of these terms as a more probable outcome for this writer is then discussed. A question for further examination by the reader is then posed. It has become increasingly clear that Capella University takes the concept of Scholar-Practitioner seriously. The very nature of the term, in contrast to the concept of Practitioner-Scholar, places emphasis on that of “Scholar”.
As a further definition, Mackie posits that an objective moral value has the quality of ‘ought-to-be-pursued-ness’, it is something one should or ought do because it contains an inherently normative aspect. If Mackie’s argument is to succeed, it must prove that this supposed normative aspect has no existence within any act in itself, but has its origin in the agent of said act, and as such, all moral claims are false. Mackie’s exposition of moral relativism comes in the form of two main arguments, the first being his ‘argument from relativity’, the second, his ‘argument from queerness’. It is with the argument from relativity that I shall be here concerned. The argument from relativity is based around the purely ‘descriptive’ idea that it is an empirically observable fact that there seems to be
He describes Culture as, “... a matter of ideas and values, a collective cast of mind.” (227) Kuper believes things such as art, education, ceremony, traditions and other factors of societies should be studied for what they are instead of lumping them into the word culture. (x) Confining these factors to the word culture makes way for culture to be used as a tool to further Political agendas, instead of an analytical tool. Kuper presents us with a large body of evidence, hoping to prove that the word culture has taken on too heavy a burden and if we could get away from the word itself, maybe we could strip Anthropology of the racism, and political ties that the word now finds itself glued to. Geneologies Is the first section of Kuper's book. In this section Kuper sets the stage for the initial disagreement that would carry on and evolve
Week Two Content Outline OBJECTIVE: Construct and support an argument. Content Argumentation Why is Argumentation Important (pp. 434-435) Finding an Issue and Establishing Your Claim (pp. 436-438) an argument essay gives evidence to support a claim about an issue. And the issue is a concern or problem about which people disagree, and a claim as the writer's opinion about the issue.
It is a defense of studying each historical period on its own terms, and not imposing one's own moral and social standards on figures and situations that existed with, perhaps, a different set of ethical and cultural concerns. Butterfield’s text described historians who project modern attitudes on to the past, pass moral judgments on historical figures, and regard history as significant only to the extent that it labored to create the modern world. Such judgments are viewed as problematic because they tempt historians not to understand the past on its own terms. Butterfield argues that historians should write aesthetically rather than polemically, exercising "imaginative sympathy" in appreciating the lost worlds of the dead rather than seeking, or expecting, the vindication of their own current positions (92). The "Whig interpretation," as Butterfield calls it, sees history as a struggle between a progression of good libertarian parties and evil reactionary forces, failing to do justice to history's true complexity.
Do the same for the contrary evidence. If you think it will help, note where you will place statistics or quotations. Choose the quotations that best support your thesis. Quote directly when the quotation clearly and succinctly states the point you wish to make, or illustrates a point you have made. When the quotation is wordy or provides only basic facts, you will want to paraphrase the material.
Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, just because it is his." In this quote Emerson is elaborating on the idea that one must express intellectual independence and nonconformity. The question of, “Why does one rely on others to determine the way he thinks, acts, dresses and speaks?” frequently comes up in the defense of transcendentalism. Two very influential and active authors in transcendentalism, Thoreau and Emerson, both tried to incorporate this idea into their writings. When an individual allows others to influence his own ideas, he showed be deemed weak-minded and ignorant.
Russell says that the value of philosophy must be primarily sought (p.18). According to Bertrand Russell, “Philosophy aims primarily at knowledge, the kind which results from a critical examination of the grounds of our convictions, prejudices and beliefs (Perry, John, Michael Bratman, and John M. Fischer, p.18).” It cannot be said that philosophy has had a very great success in its attempts to provide definite answers to its questions. Although philosophy is unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, “Philosophy is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom.
THE LOGIC OF POLITICAL ENQUIRY (POLS7045) JOHNATHAN PAOLI (312912) Ricoeur’s Critical Hermeneutics and the Habermas-Gadamer Debate The debate originating in the 1960s between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jürgen Habermas portrays the fundamental importance around considerations of interpretation. Despite the fact that both philosophical hermeneutics and ideological critique on a certain level concern the importance of interpretation, especially in relation to the power structures which facilitates the engagement with tradition and the acquisition of new forms and sources of ‘truth’, the debate surrounding the ontological framework for hermeneutics and the consistency or compatibility of a critical theory within that discourse has proven a breeding ground for new considerations and reconsiderations of the relationships between tradition, prejudice, authority, interest and reflection and their position within the system of knowledge surrounding human inquiry. Hermeneutics is presented as that by means of which the investigation of the basic structures of factual existence is to be pursued—not as that which constitutes a ‘theory’ of textual interpretation nor a method of ‘scientific’ understanding, but rather as that which allows the self-disclosure of the structure of understanding as such. In line with this then the Habermas-Gadamer debate “…hinges most fundamentally on the relation of critical theory to the living traditions which prevail in the societies in which critique arises and which it seeks to transform” [Mendelson 1979:44]. The debate between the humility of hermeneutics versus the hostile defiance of ideological critique represents two opposing perspectives, in some ways addressing each other and in other ways addressing separate problems, concerning the foundational position of understanding.
Postmodernism in the film Being John Malkovich Jae Sung Park – 2011191020 Postmodernism is a philosophical idea that became prominent in the latter half of the twentieth century. This idea focuses on raising questions against the validity of reality and what is commonly regarded as the truth. In this aspect, postmodernism can be seen as a derivative of modernism, which also questions the Enlightenment ideas of absolute truths and individual sovereignty. They are both a significant drift from the realism of 19th century. However, postmodernism is distinguishable from its predecessor in several key aspects (although there is still much debate about the criteria for how this distinction can be made).