I am signed up for a class about education and development. Development, I have learned, is a very ambiguous word that basically means how us as a society feel. Development has been an issue since the start of modern civilization in Roman times. Aristotle, one of my favorite people, thought on the process of development being the progression of the individual to the family to the villiage to what he called the state. Each step complicating the happiness of the basic family, but facilitating the progress of such. The article goes on to describe many different social development theories continuing with Christianity (historically not theologically), the Rennissance, the Enlightenment, Evolutionary theory, Structural-Functionalism, Neo-Evolutionism, Human Capital Theory, Marxist theories (which are always fun), Dependency and finally Liberation. Each theory seems to become more and more complicated, of course, but also more vague. It is like classic post-modern thinking, is good really good? Is it bad? What is good and bad? Post-modernists basically argue that everything is relative thus making no conclusions and saying nothing. It is frustrating.
I admire the people who do say things and who stand by what they say. We talk
about Aristotle often in classes because he dabbled a bit into everything, and his thoughts are the basis of scholerly thought as we have today. I admire his simple response to things based on his, dare I say, testimony that he gained through watching how things worked naturally. Now I don't think he knew everything, but he had some pretty good ideas. His ideas about family, story, integrity, social balance and progress are quite interesting.
I was just going to bed and wanted to write a little about what I am studying for my minor in development and how confusing it can be sometimes and how great Aristotle is. Thanks for reading!
Here is Aristotle saying good night.
"G' Night peps!"
Good ol' Aristotle.
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