Final Exam Study Sheet: Please post questions below (in comments), so that I can address them either here or in class on Wednesday.
The Aristotle
Rene Descartes, The Meditations on First Philosophy
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
Course Reader, chapters 8 (Analyzing Narrative), 9 (Comparison and Contrast), 10 (Application), and 11 (Genre)
ethos/pathos/logos
Aristotelian intermediacy, excellence
Hylomorphism, soul (mind/body)
material, formal, efficient, formal causes
causal analysis
Sense deception, error
Doubt (dream hypothesis, “evil genius”)
Epistemology/Ontology
Meditation
Objective reality/formal reality
Imagining/Sensing/Perceiving
Will
Intellect, Understanding
Difference between mind and body for Descartes
Thesis #1: “Descartes is again looking for answers not to the world outside but to his interior thinking experience.”
“clearly and distinctly”
irony
assessment/judgment
persuasion
gentry
satiric field
direct discourse/indirect discourse/free indirect discourse/compression of discourse
sentiments/sensations
genre
narrative/narration
social commentary/satire
comedy
Kellynch Hall—from gentry estate to naval family
Aristocracy/meritocracy
Thinking against Austen—fact vs. fiction, creation of empire, defense of Navy
Unthinkability of novel and imperialism without each other
Interiority
Induction
Application
Transitions and development: “articulating a difference from what has been said before while
also establishing a connection.”
The good of a novel
Epistemological confidence
The body as condition of existence
Gesture
Racial self-contempt
Narrative voice/tone
Suffering/trauma
Madness
interiorization/internalization
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5 comments:
i have been looking over my notes and can't find anything on "clearly and distinctly" i know hat it has to do with our wanting to perceive what we see (well something like that). can anyone help me out with what this means?
I think for Descartes, he perceived things that are "clear" and "distinct" to be true. I'm not entirely sure, but that's what I think.
i agree, kevin, and i think that is helpful. "clear" and "distinct" were descartes' terms to describe knowledge that he arrived at through his mind (mind's eye), not through his senses. he wanted to be able to establish a kind of fundamental certainty, from which you could build to more complex ideas. all of the characteristics of god that he describes are things that you could know "clearly and distinctly"; these things are true and thus things we know, as we know God, are also true, insofar as they are clear and distinct.
i'm having difficulty understanding objective reality and formal reality, can anyone clarify each? whats the difference? or the similarity between the both?
objective reality is best understood as the knowledge you have about something in your mind. in relation to the question about "clearly and distinctly," we could say that with clear and distinct ideas we have objective reality. formal reality is the reality that something has as it appears in the world. it might help to think of it in terms of aristotle's "formal cause," which describes how something appears, how we would know something if we see it again. so "formal reality" is what we might think of more as external reality, reality that we know through the sense and the body and experience. people who can add to this or have different explanations, please do.
erin
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