As long as you continue to hold someone in admiration, you will not be able to critique them dispassionately!
Monday, February 15, 2021
Saturday, July 18, 2020
Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Positivism vs. Interpretivism vs. Postmodernism - Quora
- Positivism: Only verifiable (and refutable) scientific inferences are "knowledge". All the rest is emotion and psychology.
- Interpretivism: The social sciences are the realms of "non positivist" knowledge, and are not subject to simplistic scientific verifications/refutations.
- PostModernism: All knowledge has social infrastructure. One cannot disentangle them completely. So what constitutes knowledge is socially constructed, and not "impartial" or "objective".
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Types of schools in Australia
- Govt / Public
- Selective
- Catholic (Per Year 3,500 AUD)
- Private
- Gift and talented (semi selective)
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Postmodernism
Relates to western thought; has three eras:
- Pre modern:
- Before science came
- There were kings
- Church held roost
- Church issued bulls - Pope could issues - like fatwa
- Modernity (of Europe, US, etc.)
- Challenge to church
- Role for science
- Separate role for religion
- Industry
- Technology starts
- Capitalism
- Free enterprise
- Material success
- Slavery & genocide, Colonial loot leading to wealth - Rockefeller, Phillip Morris, etc.
- Done brilliant things due to Science, industrialisation, etc.
- Post modernity
- 20th century
- When they realised modernity produced some ugly things - communism, Nazism, etc.
- There is a crisis
- Is the latest fad
- It attacks modernity (attacks slavery, exclusivity)
- Attacked grand narratives of modernity
- Indians lack the context of our own culture and civilization, suffer from an inferiority complex, brought post-modernity into India, started "Deconstructing" and started the "Indian Grand Narrative".
- Modernism started with the industrial revolution.
- Modernism saw attempts to explain society, human behavior, politics, sexuality with all-embracing theories called Grand Narratives.
- Modernism rejected culture and tradition.
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