GREETINGS NOBODY
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HERE IS THE MAP I CREATED OF ALL THE DEPARTMENTS/MAJORS IN FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
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Here is my outline from class on Thursday. I ordered them from fundamental to incidental such that mathematics is the language of the universe and physics is the realization of fundamental laws of the universe - together which form the foundation of knowledge. The tree then continues through the core sciences into three major branches. Science then yields the social sciences which depart into philosophy, the arts which end in religion, and then the humanities thus ending in history. Ultimately history and religion come together into philosophy as well which offers a language to describe the universe through the lens of the human perspective. Note that the philosophy department and philosophy major are not the same as true philosophy.
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IDEALLY THE MAP WOULD BE MUCH SIMPLER, AND SO THE CLASS WAS ASKED THIS QUESTION:
What is the ideal map of Franklin College of Arts and Sciences? What majors seem unnecessary or less important and/or what majors seem to be left out? How ought this college be divided?
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LORD RAVEN
LORD OF THE SKIES
"Ultimately history and religion come together into philosophy as well which offers a language to describe the universe through the lens of the human perspective."
ReplyDeleteThis is quite the interesting view of philosophy. The way your paragraph is structured, it is also hard to tell which philosophy is presented on the map. The path to a good life? Knowledge/love of the universe and order (cosmos)? Others view it as the basic building blocks of all other knowledge.
Plato said that mathematics should be the most admired subject of the philosopher.
I just feel that philosophy, true or the department here, has more connections than can be viewed on a "tree." What is the point of organizing departments into a tree anyway? Ideally, should all of the departments overlap to a small degree? Linguistics, philosophy of logic, biological anthropology, human geography, scientific illustration.... If all of the departments were more interconnected wouldn't all learning at the university be richer?
There is a Dance department ??? ... the fuck
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