Question

While the ancient world may seem remote and quite divorced from the problems of the present, the study of ancient humanities can help us make sense of the world as it is today. The nature and impact of various cultural and religious developments, the responses of societies to complex social and economic challenges, the issues of justice, discrimination and violence were as much part of the ancient world as they are of our world today.

Is it by morality, or is it by legality (We will encounter this in studying Rome. Were Christians persecuted or prosecuted) that we make our decisions? As we witness police officers not being indicted for killing innocent people, or our leaders claim that NFL players should be fired for kneeling in protest during the national anthem, a sense of governmental law and a personal ethical obligation is at odds. Antigone struggles with many of these same philosophical ideas. Study the themes in the Antigone, i.e., laws of man vs. law of gods; power of man verses power of female, and rights of individuals vs. rights of the state. Reflect on the most relevant balance needed for our understanding today. This may be contentious for some, so please respond in an academic fashion by restraining any unwanted or unacceptable language or thoughts.

Answer 1

Most relevent balance needed for our understanding are.:

Social cognition is our ability to understand other people, and it enables us to predict their behaviour and share experiences.

It’s also critical to understanding the many nuances underpinning everyday speech, because people frequently mean something different to what they actually say.

“It’s hot in here”, for example, may be a statement of fact or a request to open a window. To understand the speaker, we need to guess the intention behind her remark.

Social cognition may represent a specialised set of abilities in the brain that are separate from those needed for non-social tasks, such as recognising a car is out of fuel. If so, it follows that social cognition may be vulnerable to brain disorders even when non-social abilities remain intact.  

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