WSJO_PNJA_COMMUNICATION _YEAR ONE mgr Sławomir Uta

TEACHING HUMANITY

http://www.law.uchicago.edu/nussbaum-arts-education.html

quality vs. quantity substance vs. style

Are we experiencing a rash of surliness, a decline in respect, an escalation of violence, or the vanishing control of shame? The experts see a rising new curve of rudeness, while older sensibilities descend the downward slope toward quaintness.

Civility manifests itself in society at two levels: as surface sheen when we all learn to control our wayward impulses and conform to recognized standards of decorum, learning to bite our tongues, control our fists, and avoid letting the door slam on the person behind us. Beneath that conspicuous level of civility lies its nourishment: an alert awareness of those around us and a knowledge of how to act so as to register respect.

Joyce Appleby http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/1997/9702/9702PRE.CFM

nonhierarchical community · responsiveness · interactivity

GENDER
RACE
ETHNICITY
CROSS-CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
irrationality · parochialism · haste · sloppiness · selfishness / narrative imagination "the ability to be an intelligent reader of another person's ''story'' (Martha Nussbaum) http://www.springerlink.com/content/q822l0686827n317/
the cultivation of sympathy only be carried out through actually living the humane and responsible interpersonal relationships, which necessitates creating and fostering a learning community in the first place http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/cpin/bai.htm
-  anxiety
-  assignment
-  blind spot
-  bureaucrats
-  citizen; citizen of the world
-  community
-  complex understanding
-  copious
-  counterproductive
-  critical capacity
-  crucially; crucial
-  curriculum; curricula
-  decent
-  defensiveness
-  ethnicity
-  faculty
-  feedback on
-  flurry
-  fraught with fear
-  gender / -  haste
-  idiosyncratic
-  ignorant
-  imaginative
-  inner eyes
-  insight into
-  instruction in
-  interaction
-  interactivity
-  irrational; irrationality
-  issue
-  liberal arts
-  local loyalties
-  multiple-choice
-  nonhierarchical; hierarchical; hierarchy
-  obtuse; obtusely; obtuseness
-  parochialism; parochial
-  perception
-  pluralized society
-  predicament / -  prejudice
-  profit motive
-  profitability
-  raft
-  rational; rationality;
-  responsiveness
-  scientific
-  selfishness
-  sheer fun
-  sloppiness; sloppy
-  snag
-  suspicion
-  the humanities
-  to approach
-  to attract philanthropic support
-  to be at risk
-  to be treated; to treat
-  to carry sth over into
-  to craft
-  to cripple / -  to cultivate
-  to cultivate sympathy
-  to foster
-  to hold a chair
-  to imagine sympathetically
-  to participate
-  to promote dialogue
-  to put on sth together
-  to refine
-  to strive to do sth
-  to think critically
-  to transcend
-  undergraduate
-  urban
-  venue for
-  vice-chancellor; chancellor
-  vision of the unseen
-  vital
-  whirlpool

1.  This text is not specific. Provide detailed examples illustrating human attitudes mentioned in it. Consider such phenomena as e.g. road rage.

2.  What's the ideal approach towards another person: according to Martha Nussbaum and according to you, personally?

3.  Is the fact that the article was written by a woman relevant?

4.  What does it mean to cultivate sympathy? How to do it?

5.  How do you think interpersonal interaction has changed over the past decade?

6.  The stranger and the "us". Suspicions, divisions, prejudice. Account for the issue.

7.  What are the obstacles towards the success of liberal-arts curricula?

8.  Do you agree that the profit-based social system makes human life a burden? What instead?

9.  What problems with interpersonal communication and metal attitudes are mentioned in the article and what is suggested as a remedy?

graphics acknowledgements

http://blog.doctissimo.fr/Cars_and_drive/index.php///last/40 http://wbz4.autobytel.com/content/shared/articles/templates/index.cfm/article_id_int/541

http://www.floraworld.com/images/occassion_location/sympathy.jpg http://members.aol.com/beverlysuekaye/huber.htm http://www.newah.org.np/images/community%20preparing%20social%20map.jpg http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/cza0289l.jpg

http://www.capalert.com/capreports/self/selfishness.gif http://www.jamesmarsh.com/image/interactivity.jpg http://creativefutures.atticmedia.com/uploads/images/selfish%20cunt_488.jpg