In this era of globalisation, humanities are more important than ever. Migration, integration, trade, and technology are blurring the borders between countries and cultures. To be able to cooperate and live together, it is crucial that we understand each other. Humanities offer the insights we need to do this.
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Best explanation I've seen yet. When I see explanations about structuralism by post-structuralists, they speak in absolute incomprehensible gobbledygook. This speaker explains it using plain language. Well done!
I'd love to study there! I studied Araband Islamic studies and am fluent in Modern Arabic, then my interest went to South Asia,so I studied modern Indonesian on my own, dan sekarang saya bisa membaca dan memahami kabar, buku,dan menonton film do RU-vid dengan baik ( I have no idea how my pronunciation is, though, cause I never met any Indonesian to speak with). And now I only started looking into Hindi (and Urdu) since a week. Looks so interesting! The only problem is...I have 4 kids and live in an other European country. I can't go to Leiden to study😅 Guess I'll just keep on doing homestudies😂
I vehemently disagree. The greeks figured out everything 2000 years ago. So much of what they wrote can be directly applied to our modern world. Many things are just inherent to the human experience.
The speaker is misrepresenting Kuhn, perhaps to promote a radical relativist attitude. Kuhn though scientific paradigms were incommensurable but still comparable, and this does not make science subjective or irrational. Incommensurability just means the concepts in different theories are cross-cutting and cannot be evaluated directly in each other's terms. The theories can still be compared and evaluated rationally using scientific metrics such as predictive power and simplicity. I notice this lecture series later goes full pseudo-science woo-woo with Foucault and Structuralism, so any rational viewers should bail out at this point.
Most histories of the WWII explain it largely in terms of major collective forces rather than merely individual decisions. This is totally commonplace. The role of unnoticed assumptions in thinking is maybe not quite so tediously banal, but still, not a surprise to any educated person. By the way, standing up and gesticulating is less effective than sitting at your desk, and that shirt sucks. Nudity would have added momentary interest, but ultimately would distract from your content.
There's an obvious problem here though. Our goals are also constituted by language. In this presentation at least, Rorty does not account for the origins of these goals, of named desires. You need something like psychoanalysis to explain how you can posit a goal, aim for it, miss the target, reconstitute the goal, etc etc I appreciated your video, very clear and gives you something to think about
These comments seem fake or nah? If i were trying to sell classes, these are exactly the comments i would have on my videos... "Saved my paper" "i learned more in 9 minutes than a whole 3 hour class".... I'm not sure who's buying, but it sure as fuck won't be me. Don't like it? Blame capitalism. In a video.
inductive Argument, Deductive Arguments are confusiong the whole process because this two want to change the premises of the Argument... Don't get it...
I suggest you look up falsification in Encyclopedia Britannica. It's free. It seems like you are using straw man arguments which are not in Britannica. I'm not suggesting that Popper did not say the things you said, I am saying that the things you are saying are not in the theory of falsification. If you are simply saying that Popper was not God- perfect, then we are in agreement. Propper and Thomas Kuhn changed Science similarly to Einstein changed Physics. They all made mistakes, they all had flaws, what is the purpose of focusing on them? Perhaps you think that many people consider them to be perfect gods? Do you inform children there is no Santa Claus too?
Isn't it wrong to declare that natural events don't mean anything? For example, the fall of an apple in a society that rejects gravity could very well mean to revolt against the status quo. I argue that all things have meaning because meaning itself is constructed by people and societies.
Minute 5:10, Actually, that's the mystery of human ability to learn a language. We somehow "know" that the sound "bread" means a concept, not just the piece of bread being referred to at a given time.
Fantastic ideas but one critique: disability representation was lacking. There was one person featured using sign language, but otherwise there featured lots of able bodied people enjoying campus, accessing spaces via stairs and using skateboards and bicycles to move around. It would have been good to see how those spaces have been made accessible for wheel chair users as well. As a person with MS, I appreciate that not all disability is visible, but some clear indicators of this representation are vital considering the message of the video. Thank you
Hi there! Thank you for the feedback. At 0.38 we feature a student wearing the hidden disabilities sunflower lanyard. This student has been very active in advocating for disability rights. With help of the Faculty of Humanities, they set up a peer support group for disabled and chronically ill students. You can watch an in-depth interview here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zInGNCIphK0.html Additionally, 0.59 features a student using a cane (student leaning over the table to the left). I hope this clarifies that disability representation was definitely considered when making the video.
È una bella poesia. Purtroppo vi sono errori di copiatura ("sorridi agli amori finiti (non finite)", e Sorridi donna, sarebbe "lach/glimlach, vrouw", non "glimlachende vrouw", che sarebbe "donna sorridente".../ "sorridente donna...".
