Intro To Humanities
• Birth of Consciousness
o <I am=
o Digger wasp is nonconsciousness
o It’s the process of self-awareness that makes you conscious
• Old Testament Creation Story (I am, Thou is)
o As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and
realized that they were naked; so, they sewed fig leaves
together and covered themselves
▪ Duality of humanity
▪ Abstract and self-existence
o So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made
them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.
• Consciousness is creative
o Paleothic cave painting (1.0)
▪
o Aesthetics of Beauty (1.1)
• Humanities – the study of what makes us HUMAN
, o But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing
that there were someone to ponder the plan of such great a
work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. (Pico
Della Mirandola)
• Birth of Civilization
o Egypt- Figure Sculpture of the Ancients (1.2)
o Mesopotamia (Iraq today) – Figure Sculpture of the
Mesopotamians (1.3)
• Monuments of the Ancients
o Mesopotamia Ziggurat – Place of the Gods (1.4)
▪ Tower of Battle is also known as the Ziggurat
o Egypt Pyramids – a tomb for the Pharaoh (1.5)
o India Stupa – meditation for the Buddhists (1.6)
• Common theme: Man-made mountains
o The Place of the Gods
▪ I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh
my help (Psalm 121)
• Mount Olympus
o Man longs for FREEDOM while seeking SECURITY
▪ Without God anything is possible – Dostoevsky
• Power only respects a greater power, if there isn’t a
greater power then that power on earth becomes
Terence
• Hammurabi Stele (1.7) (c 1750 BC)
o Hammurabi stele cuneiform text (oldest style
of writing from the ancients) (1.8)
o Classical Thought
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• Birth of Consciousness
o <I am=
o Digger wasp is nonconsciousness
o It’s the process of self-awareness that makes you conscious
• Old Testament Creation Story (I am, Thou is)
o As soon as they had eaten it, they were given understanding and
realized that they were naked; so, they sewed fig leaves
together and covered themselves
▪ Duality of humanity
▪ Abstract and self-existence
o So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden and made
them cultivate the soil from which they had been formed.
• Consciousness is creative
o Paleothic cave painting (1.0)
▪
o Aesthetics of Beauty (1.1)
• Humanities – the study of what makes us HUMAN
, o But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing
that there were someone to ponder the plan of such great a
work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness. (Pico
Della Mirandola)
• Birth of Civilization
o Egypt- Figure Sculpture of the Ancients (1.2)
o Mesopotamia (Iraq today) – Figure Sculpture of the
Mesopotamians (1.3)
• Monuments of the Ancients
o Mesopotamia Ziggurat – Place of the Gods (1.4)
▪ Tower of Battle is also known as the Ziggurat
o Egypt Pyramids – a tomb for the Pharaoh (1.5)
o India Stupa – meditation for the Buddhists (1.6)
• Common theme: Man-made mountains
o The Place of the Gods
▪ I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh
my help (Psalm 121)
• Mount Olympus
o Man longs for FREEDOM while seeking SECURITY
▪ Without God anything is possible – Dostoevsky
• Power only respects a greater power, if there isn’t a
greater power then that power on earth becomes
Terence
• Hammurabi Stele (1.7) (c 1750 BC)
o Hammurabi stele cuneiform text (oldest style
of writing from the ancients) (1.8)
o Classical Thought
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