Chapter 3: Origins of Learning Part 1

Question 1

What does reality consist of how and how does it originate?

Answer 1

materialism and idealisam

Question 2

the essence of materialism and idealism

Answer 2

Materialism: matter is bigger than mind, mater came first and then the mind, your experiences of the world precedes your consciousness

Idealism: your conciseness comes first our thoughts and ideas come first and the material is creation of our consciousness

Question 3

Dialectics.

Answer 3

It’s a method of reasoning it’s a way of thinking and understanding how everything is moving and is changing and interconnected and it exists in contradictions it’s telling it’s basically opposing sort of the simplistic reductionist sort of more dominant way of thinking today

Dialectics is opposed to the simplistic way of thinking about things and looking into things with a fixed definition of a thing which are more dominant way of thinking today dielectrics is opposed to that where you are looking for one definition one explanation, one reasoning and one solution
dietetics is Inviting us to look at things constant change constant interaction and in contradiction.

Question 4

dialectics: example

Answer 4

For dialectics, things can be contradictory not just in appearance, but inessence. For formal thinking, light must be either a waveora particle; but the truth turned out to be dialectical – light is both a waveandparticle.

For dialectics the truth is thewhole picture, of which each view is a more or less one-sided, partial aspect.

Question 5

History of dilectics

Question 6

Darwin a theorist of evolution when he was talking about the fish it using dialectic method of reasoning?

Answer 6

he went behind the appearance of a fish to get to their essence for ordinary understanding there is no difference between the appearance of a thing and their essence but for dialectics its quite the contrary.

For dialectics, things can be contradictory not just in appearance, but in essence. For formal thinking, light must be either a wave or a particle; but the truth turned out to be dialectical – light is both wave and particle.

To be dialectical in your thinking it means you are able to look at things as a whole
For dialectics the truth is the whole picture

Question 7

Dielectrics: unity and struggle of opposites

Answer 7

Applying dialectical materialism
You think about what is it that you are analyzing and what is its purpose and function.

What does it do and how does it work, how and why did it get started and how has it changed over time wharer does it seem to be going? And what are the external and internal forces affecting it

Question 8

Materialistic architecture of society

Answer 8

Question 9

the base shapes the superstructure.

Answer 9

The structure mode of production
if you look here economic base for system production and relations of production shapes social institutions’ ways of thinking our values our ideas which legitimizes the economic base again this is another way of looking at this