Über die Selbstgefälligkeit
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- 5 Lesestunden
John Hamilton Bücher
Dieser Autor ist für sein umfangreiches Werk bekannt, das sich hauptsächlich an Sachliteratur für junge Leser richtet. Seine Schriften werden dafür gelobt, eine bemerkenswerte Menge an Informationen zu präsentieren und ein klares Verständnis komplexer Themen zu vermitteln. Sein Ansatz schöpft oft aus einer tiefen Beschäftigung mit Geschichte und bildender Kunst, was zu fesselnden Erzählungen und reichhaltig präsentierten Inhalten führt. Seine Bücher bieten jungen Lesern eine lehrreiche und anregende Leseerfahrung.
Zeichnen & Skizzieren für Einsteiger
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Ein Zeichengrundkurs mit anschaulichen Illustrationen und hilfreichen Tipps
The Insignificance Paradigm
- 262 Seiten
- 10 Lesestunden
Eleazar faces the complexities of growing up, where each choice carries weighty consequences that shape his future. A seemingly minor decision leads to profound changes in his life, highlighting the unpredictable nature of coming of age and the lasting impact of one's actions.
A critical reflection on complacency and its role in the decline of classics in the academy.In response to philosopher Simon Blackburn’s portrayal of complacency as a vice that impairs university study at its core, John T. Hamilton examines the history of complacency in classics and its implications for our contemporary moment.The subjects, philosophies, and literatures of ancient Greece and Rome were once treated as the foundation of learning, with everything else devolving from them. Hamilton investigates what this model of superiority, derived from the golden age of the classical tradition, shares with the current hegemony of mathematics and the natural sciences. He considers how the qualitative methods of classics relate to the quantitative positivism of big data, statistical reasoning, and presumably neutral abstraction, which often dismiss humanist subjectivity, legitimize self-sufficiency, and promote a fresh brand of academic complacency. In acknowledging the reduced status of classics in higher education today, he questions how scholarly striation and stagnation continue to bolster personal, ethical, and political complacency in our present era.