Thursday, November 15, 2007
PAC&S and human action
I feel as if all human action can be described through some combination of philosophy, art, craft, and science. This is a sufficient means by which to understand all factors of human activity. Philosophy covers the mental "inner world". This is a constant study of a one's thoughts, emotions, or beliefs. Philosophy can never fully be explained, there for no one can understand human action without it. Art is a way in which one can express them the best way they know how. Some represent themselves through music, some through painting drawing or sculpture, and some through writing and theater. Craft is needed in a means in which we need to live; craft is needed in the construction of practical useful tools, as well as technology which we utilize everyday to assure the safety and precision of our society. Science is needed to help prevent sickness, to learn about the past, to help fight crime, as well as many other helpful actions which are used daily. Science is an observation, identification, description, and experimental investigation. With out some combination of these four elements it would be difficult for one to communicate with their surroundings.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Freudian theories
In class we have been recently talking about Freud and his throeies of the self. we talked about the ID which is the inner experiance, the will and erotic drive, the Ego which is the conscious or the "outer world", and the Superego which are the collection of ideas about behavior derived from external sources. Now i am confused , i remember talking in class and discussing how memory is an example of things obtained from one's conscious. Now if this is true than wouldn't that be more closley related to the superego?, this confuses me becasue we learned how the Ego mainly deals with the "outer world" which would be where one's memory captures the conscious.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
PAC&S and its relationship to human activity
I believe that all human activity can be fully described and understood through some sort of combonation of philosophy, art, craft, and science.
- Art- The product of a person's ability to invent, create, or design through self expression for personal satisfaction.
- Philosophy- The study of understanding, the realization obtaines by applying beliefs to the observation of an understanding, the use of reason. The nature of understanding (sences) , the position of understanding (what it can observe), The espierance of understanding (the meaning it realizes).
- Science- An observation, identification, description, and expiermental investigation of a phenomonon.
- Craft- Creativity in a practical useful form, influanced by design elements, not self expressive.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
The self / will
Recently in class we have been discussing the self and the will. We created a chart and began to explore the interaction between the inner and the outer world. from this i began to understand that the inner world deals mainly with the will, motivation, imagination, and memory. There was a question asked in class that posted and interesting topic "Are philosophy, art, craft, and science, the "outer world?" are they "inner self?" or are they somehow in between both?" I found this very interesting when i first became involved in this class we talked mainly about art and its meaning, i though all of these catagories were primarily the "outer self". Now that i think about these four elements as a whole i believe they are more derived from both the "inner self", and the "outer self"none of these elements would be discovered or even labled if they wern't first though of internaly and than expressed in the outer world. It would be very difficult to talk about art per say if it wasn't physically expressed on canvas or through music or any form of physical expression of the mind or internal feeling.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
philosophy art craft and science
For me it is easy to describe in words what the meanings of art, craft, and science are. However Philosophy poses its own unique question. i understand the question "what is philosophy" can rarely be answered, if this is true than how can we know what it categorizes. durring my own research of this topic i came to the realization, that philosophy can be described as everything!. philosophy deals with the mind and ones own unique way of thinking, its the study of understanding, the realization obtained by applying beliefs to the observation of an understanding. Now does this mean that philosophy covers everything that science, craft, and art do not?
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