1. An Introduction to Arts and Sciences
GNED 101
An Introduction to Arts and Sciences

2. Daryl Culp Office number H439 Email daryl.culp@humber.ca
Phone x8938
Course website:
learn.humber.ca
Course outline
Assignment breakdown, late penalty
Course schedule
Due dates
Online readings

3. What does it mean to be human?
Psychological, sociological, political, scientific perspectives
How do we know?
Don Tapscott, “It’s not what you know, it’s how you think” /12/36479/Homework/Short%20W orks%20Unit/Non%20Fiction/Don%2 0Tapscott%27s%20Speech.pdf

4. Socrates (469-399 BCE) “the unexamined life is not worth living”
Note-taking exercise: Listen to the story of Socrates and write down the 3 most important points.
Jacques-Louis David, “The Death of Socrates”

5. Plato ( BCE)
Plato was a student of Socrates who wrote down his dialogues.
One of the most famous is the “Allegory of the Cave.”
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6. Reading exercise
Study strategies books suggest 5 steps for reading in order to extract information from a text.
1. Survey
2. Question
3. Read
4. Recite
5. Review

7. The Matrix Socrates’ question has been updated in a recent movie:
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How is the matrix like the shadows in Plato’s cave?

8. What do you see? Should we doubt everything? (even what we see)!
paradoxes

9. What is real is in the mind!
From the study guide:
Socrates says “education” (cultural formation) is like being in a cave since childhood. Why?
Pink Floyd, "We Don't Need No Education"
   
Plato’s solution was to say that there is a reality beyond our senses.
For example: think of a circle
The most accurate description of a circle is the idea expressed in the equation:
(x-a)2 + (y-b)2 = r2

10. Knowledge through senses
Aristotle had the opposite idea:
Aristotle: “All men by nature desire to know” Metaphysics Book i.html
What you see is what you get!