Jarrick Arne
Jarrick Arne - Big Research Questions About The Human Condition A Historian's Will - Hardcover
Jarrick Arne - Big Research Questions About The Human Condition A Historian's Will - Hardcover
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Description: My basic message can be put in a straightforward way: humanities scholars should improve their way of asking questions. Their questions about the human condition need to be as clear and simple as possible in order to enable unambiguous answers. Simple without being simplistic nuanced without being embroiled that is the ideal. Unambiguous answers (not to be confused with irrefutable answers) are much wanted although not always possible to attain. Moreover if one wants the questions to be highly significant for the understanding of the human condition there should not be too many questions. Even in this respect there is much to be wanted in today's humanities research. Instead of gathering around a limited set of profound questions and holding on to them until the answers begin to appear generally the humanist guild scatters its scientific energy on too many disparate things replacing them far too often with hundreds of new questions perspectives and problematisations . In its turn such a research culture may hamper a cumulative growth of knowledge the possibility of which moreover is regrettably often denied or even viewed with suspicion. In this book I am doing two things to redress the current problems in the humanities world - wide. Firstly I present and discuss a set of big but still insufficiently addressed topics that humanities researchers should focus over a sustained period of time such as what explains that some kinds of knowledge are widely accepted whereas other kinds of knowledge are rejected or what explains the widespread diffusion of inequality paralleled by a gradual emergence of egalitarianism over the centuries et cetera. Secondly I discuss in general terms what the humanities are or should be as well as what they are not or should not be. Basically humanities researchers should consider their field as an integral part of science although uniquely dealing with humans a decision making meaning seeking and self - reflecting agents.
Title: Big Research Questions About The Human Condition A Historian's Will
Author(s): Jarrick Arne
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781785275678
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 11/30/2020
Category: History Of Western Philosophy
Description: My basic message can be put in a straightforward way: humanities scholars should improve their way of asking questions. Their questions about the human condition need to be as clear and simple as possible in order to enable unambiguous answers. Simple without being simplistic nuanced without being embroiled that is the ideal. Unambiguous answers (not to be confused with irrefutable answers) are much wanted although not always possible to attain. Moreover if one wants the questions to be highly significant for the understanding of the human condition there should not be too many questions. Even in this respect there is much to be wanted in today's humanities research. Instead of gathering around a limited set of profound questions and holding on to them until the answers begin to appear generally the humanist guild scatters its scientific energy on too many disparate things replacing them far too often with hundreds of new questions perspectives and problematisations . In its turn such a research culture may hamper a cumulative growth of knowledge the possibility of which moreover is regrettably often denied or even viewed with suspicion. In this book I am doing two things to redress the current problems in the humanities world - wide. Firstly I present and discuss a set of big but still insufficiently addressed topics that humanities researchers should focus over a sustained period of time such as what explains that some kinds of knowledge are widely accepted whereas other kinds of knowledge are rejected or what explains the widespread diffusion of inequality paralleled by a gradual emergence of egalitarianism over the centuries et cetera. Secondly I discuss in general terms what the humanities are or should be as well as what they are not or should not be. Basically humanities researchers should consider their field as an integral part of science although uniquely dealing with humans a decision making meaning seeking and self - reflecting agents.
Title: Big Research Questions About The Human Condition A Historian's Will
Author(s): Jarrick Arne
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781785275678
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 11/30/2020
Category: History Of Western Philosophy
