here I am sharing some of the samples of online discussion.
[eng_dept_bu} OD1: Atheism and Morality
my response.
[eng_dept_bu} OD1: Atheism and Morality
my response.
We can devide this into parts. Two things are there.
1) who believes in the things which is BEYOND six senses.
2) believers of the reality which comes through our real senses.
2) believers of the reality which comes through our real senses.
It simply means that those who do not believe in supernaturals, certainly they believe in something, which is more real, more rational.
Franz Fanon, in one of his non-fiction "Black Skin, White Masks" says that
"NOT ALL MAN CAN BE COLONIZED, ONLY THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE NEED"
Likewise, I would like to say,
"NOT ALL MAN CAN BE RELIGIONISED, ONLY THOSE WHO EXPERIENCE THE FEAR"
They are doing good, because they fear something which is unearthly, which is above their senses. If there is no any reward, perhaps their morality would get changed.
But in case of those who do not believe in supernaturals, they do the things for sake of doing it. So any good or evil rewards does not affect their doings or moralities.
[eng_dept_bu} OD5: Psychological Advantages of Literature
With which of the following FOUR advantages of reading literature you agree?
Can you add one or two more advantage/s of reading literature from your experience of studying literature for last 4/5 years.
Reply your response without changing the subject line of this email.
Happy reading!
by Maria Popova
“Writers open our hearts and minds, and give us maps to our own selves.”
The question of what reading does for the human soul is an eternal one and its answer largely ineffable, but this hasn’t stopped minds big and small from tussling with it — we have Kafka’s exquisite letter to his childhood friend, Maurice Sendak’s visual manifestos for the joy of reading, and even my own answer to a nine-year-old girl’s question about why we have books today.
Now comes a four-point perspective on the rewards of reading by writer and philosopher Alain de Botton and his team at The School of Life — creators of those intelligent how-to guides to modern living, spanning everything from the art of being alone to the psychology of staying sane to cultivating a healthier relationship with sex to finding fulfilling work. In this wonderful animated essay, they extol the value of books in expanding our circle of empathy, validating and ennobling our inner life, and fortifying us against the paralyzing fear of failure.
IT SAVES YOU TIME
It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver — because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly. Literature is the greatest reality simulator — a machine that puts you through infinitely more situations than you can ever directly witness.
IT MAKES YOU NICER
Literature performs the basic magic of what things look like though someone else’s point of view; it allows us to consider the consequences of our actions on others in a way we otherwise wouldn’t; and it shows us examples of kindly, generous, sympathetic people.
Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system — the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side — they make us sympathetic to ideas and feelings that are of deep importance but can’t afford airtime in a commercialized, status-conscious, and cynical world.
IT’S A CURE FOR LONELINESS
We’re weirder than we like to admit. We often can’t say what’s really on our minds. But in books we find descriptions of who we genuinely are and what events, described with an honesty quite different from what ordinary conversation allows for. In the best books, it’s as if the writer knows us better than we know ourselves — they find the words to describe the fragile, weird, special experiences of our inner lives… Writers open our hearts and minds, and give us maps to our own selves, so that we can travel in them more reliably and with less of a feeling of paranoia or persecution…
IT PREPARES YOU FOR FAILURE
All of our lives, one of our greatest fears is of failure, of messing up, of becoming, as the tabloids put it, “a loser.” Every day, the media takes us into stories of failure. Interestingly, a lot of literature is also about failure — in one way or another, a great many novels, plays, poems are about people who messed up… Great books don’t judge as harshly or as one-dimensionally as the media…
Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others — because it’s a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
Complement with the greatest books of all time, according to 125 celebrated contemporary authors, then revisit The School of Life’s imaginative exploration of Heidegger’s philosophy via a shrimp and Alain de Botton on how art can save your soul.
my response -
Almost all the things said about reading literature, it becomes important to study. And most of the time, I have agreed the points except those given by Plato .
Here also all four points are really very interesting to observe that it becomes harder to choose one or two. As they are true in its own sense. But still ..
The thing I agree the most is,
Quote
*IT SAVES YOU TIME*
It looks like it’s wasting time, but literature is actually the ultimate time-saver — because it gives us access to a range of emotions and events that it would take you years, decades, millennia to try to experience directly.
Unquote.
This gives us a range of maturity that we can feel the maturity of 60 years old person and 6 years old child. We don't have to grow up physically to understand things in better way.
Another point I would add here is =
*IT EXPANDS OUR HORIZON*
it is literature which makes us free and helps us climb the cliff higher. It is as vast and giant as life itself. We can settle down with two of the contradictions without giving a weight to single one. We can settle with two opposition without believing in single one.
[eng_dept_bu} Online Discussion 2: Post-truth: Word of the year 2016
After reading attached files and videos, the sense of reading post-truth seems developed.
To describe this, again I would like to quote an image as an example of post truth.
In this image we can see the sides of truth and something like ultimate truth. Now, in postmodernism, everybody is aware of truth and the conception of truth is not at the center, but how TRUTH have emerged as TRUTH that becomes interesting to study.
So, why the light have put in certain direction that goes with post truth kind of thing. The focus of lighting is at fault that truth have to emerge in different pattern. That is the concern.
[eng_dept_bu} Online Discussion 4 (OD4_16-17): Literature and Politics: Dystopic Novels: BNW and 1984
my response -
Probable reasons for the rise of the selling of the books.
1. Applicability.
We have several series of events which goes back and finds its' dots or connection with these kind of books. For example, Brexit ; trumponomics etc.
Where trump is perfectly suitable for one of the characters in these novels "big brother".
And whatever we produce as a form of post is smartly controlled by state apparatus. And with passing of span of time, our thoughts become a crime and it is handled by a police metaphorically.
And whatever we produce as a form of post is smartly controlled by state apparatus. And with passing of span of time, our thoughts become a crime and it is handled by a police metaphorically.
2. Universality.
The text have to pass the test of time & place. After the text is written, is it appropriate to other place other time or not. So, texts like brave new world, nineteen eighteen four, passes that test.
3. Vision.
If the writer is able to see the past and how well can he connect the dots with future. And we see with passing of time that his metaphor still works or not. The historicity of history he have to keep in mind in order to observe what is going on in present and how well he can see the future.
4. Perhaps, to find a way out.
Why people go on revisiting book than reason might be this also.
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