Week 7 Overview and Assignments

This week our goal is to consider the progressive nature of historiography throughout time.

 We completed an activity on historical reliability and transmission of information, considering how personal perceptions and our interactions with various ways and areas of knowing affected the ways in which our historical information was relayed.

 We also discussed some of the underlying principles of historical observation using Jorgenson's rationalist 7-step model on the limits and reliability of history based on time, space, motivation, and quantity.

 On Wednesday  we considered the development of history throughout time, starting with the Greco-Roman traditions, swerving into the non-western developments of China and Muslim cultures, contrasted with the Early Christian and Judeo-Palestinian conceptions of time, into the Enlightenment Whip school, Hegelianism, Annales school and lastly, Marxism. I suggested for the ongoing, 21st century discussion of the philosophy of history and its impact on the present/future to research the system of thought known as "Sustainable History", which sees all human culture as a single entity comprised of many parts.

Assignments:

TOK Ch. 6, p. 211-236

Team 1: 211-215

Team 2: 216-220

Team 3: 221-225

Team 4: 226-230

Team 5: 231-233

Team 6: 233-236

PP: Team 1-3: Georg Hegel

Team 4-6: Michel Foucault

AIO: Just War Theory

Blog 5 Discussion Here (Due 3/4)
Next week we will be debriefing with an informal Socratic Seminar.  We will also begin preparation for our second formal Socratic Seminar as you begin researching one of three Problem of Knowledge issues regarding History and one other area of knowing.