An example of modern educational thinking
July 2, 2008
Notes from a distance learning course for mature-age students at Murdoch University…
Do you have an Attitude? Or a world view – or is it just shared assumptions
Time isnt a thing, its just an idea. Sense of how Australia was 300 years ago, how would you feel before we became a nation.
A Walnut was good for the brain in the old days because it resembled it in it’s crenelated appearance. Ha Ha how funny now that it turns out that walnut enzymes are good for you ha ha
Gravity doesnt exist, God doesnt exist, money doesnt exist. They are just ideas. Gravity is what Newton Came up With to explain something. It’s just a theory. Since the time of enlightenment – Instead of us using God we are using Science to explain things
search for perfection ratio – measure by reason.
Look at things in ratio – science is just another way of looking at things.
The Modern World View: Its my mind that allows me to think who I am it is not my soul. Newtown and Locke reinvented causes Aristotelian, and Gallileo – Isaac Newton managed to look at the moon.
The earth is the center of an enclosure and It took them more than 200 years to work out what that meant
Then of course Einstien came along and… well its a fabric if you like – the fabric of space time!
its the latest theory!
Newton had gone back to the greeks then came up with atoms
John Locke extended the idea of atoms to the social contract – Individuals as atoms
how different is a world view from an individuals
In the modern world the existentialists With quantum shift – yes -Its a post modern world view
Walnuts – other ways to know the world – environment, Bodies!
Post-Modern sense of self we celebrate
so there we are. the sense of self changes over time but you can be the author of your own narrative.
(See above for a different point of view – ecc.)
