Plugging into Humanities
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 214
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 214
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What are the humanities? The humanities can be described as the study of all things human.
Plugging into Humanities is meant to help tell the story of the humanities during the course of history. From the beginning of time, humans have documented the history of man by ways of art, music, philosophy, literature and religion. We use the documentation of their experiences as a way to further comprehend our world. Unplug from what has become the norm of daily activities of all things electronic and plug into the experience of what makes us who we are.
‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ —George Santayana
Chapter 1: Introduction
Humanities, Sciences
Culture
Culture Epoch Theory, Prehistory Ancient Human Thought
Summary
Chapter 2: The Moors
Who are the Moors?
Moorish Rule
Enlightenment
Agriculture
Textiles
Engineering and Architecture
Education
Chapter 3: Literature
Types of Poetry
Lyric Poetry, Epic Poetry, Dramatic Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Epic Literature
Critical Terms
Review Question
Commentary and Applications
Chapter 4: Critical Thinking
Critical Method
Critical Method
Art: An Operational Definition
Chapter 5: Art
Elements of the Visual Arts
Line, Shape, Color, Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso, Tints, Shades, and Tone, Texture, Perspective, Form, Subject, Value
Artists and Styles of Art
Styles of Art
Printmaking Methods
Process or Method, Printmaking
What Factors Influence Artists?
Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519, Michelangelo Buonarrotti 1475–1564, Francisco de Goya 1746–1828, Claude Monet 1840–1926, Edgar Degas 1834–1917, Vincent van Gogh 1853–1890, Edouard Manet 1832–1883
Chapter 6: Music
Introduction
Unknown Example
Elements of Music
Melody, Harmony/Chords, Rhythm, Dynamics, Texture, Additional Texture Terms, Timbre
Critical Terms
Review Question
Commentary and Applications
Chapter 7: Happiness
Definition of Happiness
Notions of Happiness, Happiness the End
Section 5
Section 6
Utilitarianism
The Greatest Happiness Principle
Qualities of Pleasure
An Objection
Not the Agent’s own Happiness
Can We do without Happiness?
Chapter 8: Love
Introduction to Love
Love Styles
Six Love Styles
Putting it All Together
Social and Cultural Contexts of Meeting and Dating
A Short History Lesson: Social Contexts and Relationships
Intermarriage: History to Present Day
Love as a Society
Chapter 9: Freedom
How do People Think About Ethics?
Skepticism About Moral Truths
Responses to Skepticism About Moral Truths
How to Reject the Verification Principle
Morality as Non-Contradiction
Morality as Maximizing Utility
Determinism
A Thought Experiment
Defining Free Will
Free Will as Agent Causation
Free Will as the Ability to do Otherwise
Free Will as Acting for One’s Own Reasons
Conclusion
Fundamental Principles for the Metaphysics of Morals
The Categorical Imperative
Consequences Not Relevant
A Universal Law
The Categorical Imperative
Examples
An End in Himself
The Kingdom of Ends
Nicomachean Ethics
Moral Excellences
The Golden Mean
Moderation
The Definition of Virtue
The Several Virtues
Deficiency and Excess
Perception, Not Reasoning
Determinism
Of the System of Man’s Free Agency
The Will a Modification of the Brain
On Deliberation
Choice no Proof of Free Will
The Complication of Motion
Selections on Compatibilism
Compatibilism
The Trolley Problem
Killing and Letting Die: The Trolley Problem
Study Guide
Meta-Ethics
Major Ethical Theories
Applying Ethical Theories to Common Debates
Free Will
D’Holbach
Taylor
Compatibilists/Stace