change Tag

27 Aug

Posted at 18:06h in Collegiate, Humanities

Once you have personally reacted to a chapter’s Great Idea of Change in the Pre-Learning Reflection and you have been exposed to some major positions from important philosophers, social scientists, artists, historians, professors, scientists, mathematicians and authors vis-à-vis the Great Idea in the Syntopical Learning Great Idea section, you will be assigned a few, short core text readings that help to further deepen your understanding of the Great Idea being explored in each chapter. ...

24 Aug

Posted at 17:17h in Collegiate, Humanities

Principle Quotations Relating to the Great Idea of Change in Introduction to the Humanities which is a Best Seller on Kobo!  “Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance…” - George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan “(Motion) is nothing more than the action by which any body passes from one place to another.” - Rene Descartes “Reality is mobility…only changing states exist. Rest is never more than apparent, or, rather, relative.” - Henri Bergson “Energy may be called the fundamental cause for all change in the world.” - Heraclitus” “When the change from contrary to contrary is in quantity, it is ‘growth and diminution’; when it...

21 Aug

Posted at 18:02h in Collegiate, Humanities

Change—we have been told and we often experience—is inevitable in this world. Change can be physical—material bodies on Earth change in form and space through time. Change can include the transformations, over extensive periods of time, of a species, a nation, a cultural heritage, a language or a family line. The weather changes, you age, your opinions and your appearance often change. Change can also be emotional, psychological or spiritual. Perhaps, then, the first way to consider the idea of “change” is to look at what does change in the world and what, if anything, remains the same. What, in...