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As you saw in the previous Module, our understanding of the world is very much shaped by WHO we are, WHERE we are, what TECHNOLOGY we have at our...
As you saw in the previous Module, our understanding of the world is very much shaped by WHO we are, WHERE we are, what TECHNOLOGY we have at our disposal, WHEN in history we live, etc. Depending on all these - and many more factors - we form our Truths, the ideas we hold to be "self-evident", not requiring explanation. Sometimes these Truths are useful - and sometimes they're not. The trick is knowing how to look closely at your Truths and knowing when to "step out of your cave" and make change. That's not easy. But if we keep using old outdated maps or outdated diet advice we won't succeed. Similarly, we may need to challenge ourselves to evaluate whether the Truths (or "caves"?) which SEEM to serve US really well are bad for other people (who live in other conditions or "caves"). It might be great for me to do X but if it hurts other people is it still a good idea? To what extent do we need to try to take into account other people? Truths, truths, assumptions, paradigms, and ideas of "normal" - these are all ways of describing the ideas that we take for granted AND which we use to orient ourselves (like maps). But, like the maps, our assumptions can be very useful SOMETIMES and very constricting or misleading/not useful other times. Our assumptions/paradigms/ideas about normal can become like Plato's cave - a place of delusion.Kuhn describesthe ways in which groups of people (scientists) come to agreement about the right way of doing/acting or thinking - and how these ways can be both useful and constraining. His ideas can be applied to the way any group of people (in an organization, business, or industry, for example) tend to act as if there is "one right way of seeing and doing things".For your discussion posts, use Plato's AND Kuhn's ideas about how we perceive the world and what we think is RIGHT and NECESSARY to analyze the article about Apple computer which I have posted in the Learning Module ("Apple, America"). Specifically, try to identify which Truths and paradigms have contributed to the business practices and choices (by Apple and others) in the article. What have the decision makers ASSUMED to be True? What have they ASSUMED to be "normal". Who benefits and who doesn't from these decisions? And what do YOU think of their assumptions/Truths/paradigms/decisions? Use the link below to go to the article. Write a page on the article topic in relation to the reading attached. Follow the this link to the required article.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?scp=1&sq=apple%20production%20and%20the%20u.s%20middle%20class&st=cse
