“The Incoherence of the Incoherence” written by Averroes challenges al-Ghazali’s argument in his text “The Incoherence of the Philosophers”. Al-Ghazali’s work attacks philosophers (specifically Aristotle) with 20 points, challenging many Aristotlelian beliefs regarding the eternity of the world and God’s “will”. …
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Week 4: “On the Study Methods of Our Time”
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“On the StudyMethods of Our Time” by Giambattista Vico illustrates the benefits and detriments of the study methods of the author’s time (early 18th century) in comparison to those of the ancients. Vico looks to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of his…
Week 2: Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”
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The first line in Aristotle’s Rhetoric, “Rhetoric is the counterpart of Dialectic”, began my frustration. Having previously read Plato’s Grogias, wherein Socrates, in a very nonlinear, disorienting way, establishes the notion that the object of rhetoric is persuasion and belief and it is only…
Week 1: “This post will fill your mind with wonder! Read it, it will make you better” . . . Rhetoric: The art of persuasion, not of truth.
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Now that I have grasped the reader’s attention through the employment of rhetoric, though I am no famous rhetorician like Gorgias , I will use the aforementioned attention to discuss Plato’s Gorgias. Having one-half of the class title (i.e. History of Rhetoric)…
Kyle’s Final Essay: “My Face on Space Book: A Study of Social Networking Sites and their Significance”
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My Face on Space Book Maintaining a notion upheld the length of human history, human beings are naturally social. According to the 2009 Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word social is defined as: “the interaction of the individual and the group, or…
Learning through Games . . .
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Both articles, “Learning and Games” and “Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Game Play” are built upon the statement “video games are virtual experiences centered on problem solving, they recruit learning and mastery as a form of pleasure” (Gee, 16).…
Media Artifact Exercise
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For this exercise, I was experiencing difficulty selecting a specific artifact from the list of examples Dr. De Vries provides. However, out of this minor frustration, I discovered a way to analyze and explore the entirety of artifacts by focusing…
Little Brother, Big Implications
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Cory Doctorow’s text Little Brother yields multiple implications for the society in which we (hopefully not blindly) reside. Doctorow’s entertaining yet horrifying depiction of Marcus and his experience with the Department of Homeland Security, exemplifies a reactionary response to a terrorist…
Precautious Participation
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Mirko Sahefer’s account Participation Inside? provides useful insights into the world of user participation in the web, specifically social interaction and content sharing. As a result of the dominant presence of media and internet, the definition of participation has evolved…
Scouting Report: Project Gutenberg
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Although this report involved a minimal amount of scouting, the archive I discovered this past year is and has been revolutionizing internet users’ access to literature on the web. After thoroughly exploring the site and personally utilizing it for the…