Knowledge Evaluation and Conclusion
After thoroughly investigating the course theme, I feel as though I have a great deal more knowledge about what exactly makes humans bad. I agree with Locke over Hobbes, primarily because I choose to believe in the good of humanity, even though there will always be a few "bad apples" in the bunch. As a liberal studies student, I am able to see the concept from an alternative perspective as well. In some cases, a person may just be inherently bad. History has given us plenty of classic examples from Attila the Hun to Heinrich Himmler to Joseph Stalin; these people give credence to Hobbes theory of people being born bad.
I especially enjoyed how we were able to explore the theme across several academic disciplines. Studying the humanities served as more than just a great primer for future knowledge, but there were several topics that were extremely interesting, such as the effect of swearing and antilanguage. The social sciences were great because they provided us with a chance to see how the interactions of bad people with the larger societies around them played out. And finally natural science was a good place to wrap everything up. I especially enjoyed learning about how much our brain is responsible for use being labeled either good or bad.
As I was writing this blog, the writing process helped to solidify my thoughts. Throughout my career as a student, I have discovered that the learning process is not really complete until you put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard in this modern era!) I was skeptical about this particular theme at the beginning of the quarter, but now that I have thoroughly explored it I feel that it was indeed worthwhile.
After thoroughly investigating the course theme, I feel as though I have a great deal more knowledge about what exactly makes humans bad. I agree with Locke over Hobbes, primarily because I choose to believe in the good of humanity, even though there will always be a few "bad apples" in the bunch. As a liberal studies student, I am able to see the concept from an alternative perspective as well. In some cases, a person may just be inherently bad. History has given us plenty of classic examples from Attila the Hun to Heinrich Himmler to Joseph Stalin; these people give credence to Hobbes theory of people being born bad.
I especially enjoyed how we were able to explore the theme across several academic disciplines. Studying the humanities served as more than just a great primer for future knowledge, but there were several topics that were extremely interesting, such as the effect of swearing and antilanguage. The social sciences were great because they provided us with a chance to see how the interactions of bad people with the larger societies around them played out. And finally natural science was a good place to wrap everything up. I especially enjoyed learning about how much our brain is responsible for use being labeled either good or bad.
As I was writing this blog, the writing process helped to solidify my thoughts. Throughout my career as a student, I have discovered that the learning process is not really complete until you put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard in this modern era!) I was skeptical about this particular theme at the beginning of the quarter, but now that I have thoroughly explored it I feel that it was indeed worthwhile.
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