Unit One: Reality and Truth (Modern Vs. Postmodern: the Death of Truth and the Birth of Political Correctness)
It has taken us three weeks to cover all of Unit One. The main topics we have covered are Modernism, Post modernism era, the American Literature wrote during the time periods, and main fallacies. I understood everything for the most part from this unit besides the reading. I think that is where I had my most problems, I don't think it was not reading is class but maybe that we did not talk about it much in class either. We spent a lot of time on modernism and post modernism, day after day. I understood what the time eras traits were in thee first day or two. I think we should have spent more time on the fallacies, we covered like 15 in two days. It was all easy work to understand just given to us all at once.
What I gathered from this unit was a better understanding of the debate of what is truth. I have came to the conclusion that there can be absolute truth bu also what may be true to you may not also be true to me. One cannot say that all is true who are they to say it is? We are all equal but we all may not always be right.
My Favorite piece of writing this unit was Ernest Hemingway's a Clean Well Lighted Place. I understood it the best and there was a lot of interesting parts in the short story. It seemed like every part had another meaning. I enjoined reading this because it was almost like reading and putting together a puzzle. I have also noticed today that I think we talked about this the most in class. I guessing this was because of the critical analyses we wrote on it but I think it would help the class to review more about what we read.
Overall this was a good unit and I hope we do others like it again I'm sure we will
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Truth
Truth
Where do you stand on the topic of truth?
Starting in the beginning of the 20th century the time period of Modernism begun. Modernism as in the belief of absolute truth, inflexible reality: fixed, invariable, unalterable facts, also known as universal truth. “it is a fixed, invariable, unalterable fact that there are absolutely no square circles and there are absolutely no round squares.” this is a well put example of absolute truth. Modernism is based on the search of absolute truth. There are many who believe in absolute truth and many that believe there is no such thing. But to say there is no such thing as absolute truth, is saying that absolutely there is no such thing. It is a very debatable topic, what is truth has been debated for much longer than the period of modernism. Even the great Plato had an opinion of absolute truth. “Plato believed that absolute truth existed, but that truth on earth was merely a shadow of great forms of absolute truth existing in the universe.” source: wisegeek.com the end of the majority of absolute thought was in 1945, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the splitting of the atom. Once thought to be impossible became true, it completely changed the thoughts of people all over the world effecting us in almost every form. This started the time period of post-modernism, the thought that what is true to me may not be true to you and my opinions are just as right as yours. Post modernism was a start to an age of paranoia. It has affected the type of arts and writings our society is exposed to even.My personal thoughts of truth is that what maybe true to me may also be true to you, what is true to you may also be true to me, what is truth to one of us may be true for both of us. But there will always be things that are true to both of us absolutly, like there is no such thing as a square circle. There will always be people who will belive different of absolute truth like the example I just used, to my opinion though maybe they are just crazy.“It's difficult to disprove the concept of absolute truth, since saying that there are no absolute truths – that is absolutly true that no absolute truth exist – it itself an absolute truth."
Where do you stand on the topic of truth?
Starting in the beginning of the 20th century the time period of Modernism begun. Modernism as in the belief of absolute truth, inflexible reality: fixed, invariable, unalterable facts, also known as universal truth. “it is a fixed, invariable, unalterable fact that there are absolutely no square circles and there are absolutely no round squares.” this is a well put example of absolute truth. Modernism is based on the search of absolute truth. There are many who believe in absolute truth and many that believe there is no such thing. But to say there is no such thing as absolute truth, is saying that absolutely there is no such thing. It is a very debatable topic, what is truth has been debated for much longer than the period of modernism. Even the great Plato had an opinion of absolute truth. “Plato believed that absolute truth existed, but that truth on earth was merely a shadow of great forms of absolute truth existing in the universe.” source: wisegeek.com the end of the majority of absolute thought was in 1945, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the splitting of the atom. Once thought to be impossible became true, it completely changed the thoughts of people all over the world effecting us in almost every form. This started the time period of post-modernism, the thought that what is true to me may not be true to you and my opinions are just as right as yours. Post modernism was a start to an age of paranoia. It has affected the type of arts and writings our society is exposed to even.My personal thoughts of truth is that what maybe true to me may also be true to you, what is true to you may also be true to me, what is truth to one of us may be true for both of us. But there will always be things that are true to both of us absolutly, like there is no such thing as a square circle. There will always be people who will belive different of absolute truth like the example I just used, to my opinion though maybe they are just crazy.“It's difficult to disprove the concept of absolute truth, since saying that there are no absolute truths – that is absolutly true that no absolute truth exist – it itself an absolute truth."
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