will the humanities save us 人文社科能拯救我们吗？PPT教学课件

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Stanley Fish’s Attitude
• The humanities will not save us. • The humanities “are their own good”.
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Evidences
• (Para. 9-10) “Sounds great, but I have my doubts. Does it really work that way? Do the humanities ennoble? And for that matter, is it the business of the humanities, or of any other area of academic study, to save us? The answer in both case, I think, is no.”
• Para 4-8 Kronman’s view that humanities, especially “secular humanism”, own the ability to lead a person to a better living, to help him evolve sense of self and to gain the power to restrain the outer corruption.
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Structure
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Structure
• Para 1 Art and humanities are always the last to receive any assistance.
• Para 2-3 There are various comments on this unhappy fact but some justifications are not available.
Irony
• … blamed universities, which because they are obsessed with “maintaining funding” (yet) default on the obligations to produce “well-rounded citizens”. (para.2)
• Para 13 The humanities are their own good.
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Logical reasoning
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Logical reasoning
➢Inductive method
➢Scorn of the arts and humanities ➢Justification of the scorn ➢Kronman’s opinions:
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• (Para. 12)
“Teachers of literature and philosophy are competent in a subject, not in a ministry. It is not the business of the humanities to save us, no more than it is their business to bring revenue to a state or a university.”
• Para 9-12 The author disagrees with Kronman. The premise of secular humanisΒιβλιοθήκη Baidu is unreliable. People who study literature and philosophy cannot necessarily bring effects to the world as those study business do.
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➢The author’s opinion:
➢Questions---- will the humanities save us? ➢Demonstration of secular humanism ➢No evidence to support the argument ➢The humanities bring about no effects in the world
➢The humanities form the basis for living the best life one can ➢The humanities can address the crisis of spirit we now confront ➢Science, technology and careerism are impediments to living a life of meaning ➢The humanities is “secular humanism”
• (Para. 13)
“To the question ‘of what use are the humanities?’, the only honest answer is none whatsoever.”
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Rhetorical devices
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➢Conclusion: the humanities are of no use whatsoever, they are their own good.
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Main Idea
• Against the unhappy fact about humanities mentioned in a report, Anthony Kronman’s believes that only the humanities can address “the crisis of spirit we now confront”. But his opinion is doubted by Stanley Fish, who says that the use of humanities is “none whatsoever”, and “humanities are their own good”.