Re:How books help us to be better human beings
by Jun8 on Friday August 28, 2015 @10:58AM
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Good question! Using "better" for complex things without explicitly labeling the measurement axes is fluff (https://xkcd.com/833/).
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Re:How books help us to be better human beings
by RaSoJo on Friday August 28, 2015 @11:29AM
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Humanities is pretty much the embodiment of something that we could term subjective, no?
But having said that "better human being" was a term that came out of the age of enlightenment - intellectual, moral and physical growth were considered key. [1]
Hence books - with their ability to contribute on the moral and intellectual fronts - were always considered paramount.
Though with the fracturing of medial channels, books are just part of an ever larger mix. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitas#Revival_in_18th_and_...