PPT-Humanism and Normativism

Two Fundamental Aspects of the Personal Worldview Artur Nilsson Lund University Sweden The 13th European Congress of Psychology July 12th 2013 Stockholm Sweden. PHILIP KITCHER. DEWEY AND JAMES REVISITED. JAMES’ CENTRAL PROBLEM: RECONCILING SCIENCE AND RELIGION. FOR DEWEY THIS IS . ONE. PROBLEM.. ONE TASK ARISING WITHIN THE PROJECT OF DEVELOPING A LIBERAL, DEMOCRATIC WORLD-VIEW. Renaissance Humanism. The term "Renaissance" means "re-birth" and refers to Europe's "cultural rebirth" in approximately 1350-1550.. Cultural and artistic developments that began in Italy in the late 1300s, and then spread to Northern Europe in the late 1400s and early 1500s.. ~Arnold Toynbee (1976). The single clenched fist lifted and ready. Or the open asking hand held out and waiting.. . Choose:. For we meet by one or the other.. -Carl Sandburg. Social justice . The term 'social justice' implies fairness and mutual obligation in society: that we are responsible for one another, and that we should ensure that all have equal chances to succeed in life. . www.peter-scales.org.uk. Behaviourism. . – recap. 1. . Pavlov studied digestion and salivation in:. a) humans. b) giraffes. c) dogs. 2. What is the difference between an . unconditioned response. . Aim: How did Renaissance thought differ from Medieval thought?. Directions:. Copy all underlined notes in your notebook. . Make sure you have Ms. Keith check the reflection questions at the end of the . Braidotti’s. . Posthuman. Pt. 1. An End. As we’ve seen, the treatments of human nature from the 19. th. and 20. th. centuries have shared a suspicion about the tradition of philosophical anthropology.. THEOLOGY. The Start. Humanism at it’s very core denies god and focuses on the power of humanity. The supernatural is rejected and the power of humankind is celebrated.. They seek to become the best human being possible through their own means—evolution, education, philosophy, etc.. By Andrew Edmondson. To believe or not to believe?. Our worldview, religious or otherwise, partly depends on what we believe about death.. Whatever our beliefs, happiness is our common goal, in this life or the next.. Implications of a humanist perspective for the study of religion. The more excited I . get, the . more possibilities I see in terms of topics and . resources, …the . more worried I get. . How . does Humanism fit . kakkori. & . rauno. . huttunen. Question. on . humanism. The question ‘what is human being?’, is the basic question of . philosophy. . It is also . the basic . question of the science of . 17 March 2010. Outline. End of the Medieval Era. Plague. Learning. Social Order and Cultural Change. Household. Women. Trade. Vernacular Literature. Humanism. Petrarch. Print. Civic Humanism. The Origins of the Renaissance. 1450-1750.   "both sides of human consciousness - the side turned to the world and that turned inward - lay, as it were, beneath a common veil, dreaming or half awake. The veil was woven of faith, childlike prejudices, and illusion; seen through it, world and history appeared in strange hues; man recognized himself only as a member of a race, a nation, a party, a corporation, a family, or in some other general category. It was in Italy that this veil first melted into thin air, and awakened an objective perception and treatment of the state and all things of this world in general; but by its side, and with full power, there also arose the subjective; man becomes a self-aware individual and recognizes himself as such.“. Is the Renaissance a Thing?. The Renaissance: An Introduction. Why did the Renaissance start in Italy?. Europeans still looked to Rome for cultural and intellectual guidance. Italy was a center . of trade. . Local Saint, St . Gennaro. (Naples), 19 September. ….Indulgences?. Christian or Renaissance Humanism. The German word . Humanismus. first appeared in 1808. . . It referred to education which focused on ancient Greek and Latin .