of the innereyes with which we look out, through our physical eyes, on the world.
Our worldview colors our view.
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This means the ability to think what it might be like to be in theshoes of a person different from oneself, to be an intelligent reader of thatperson’s story, and to understand the emotions and wishes and desires thatsomeone so placed might have.
The third key ability of "narrative imagination." "We do not know what we are judging until we see the meaning of an action as the person intends it." Interesting link between stories, movies, protagonists, and sympathy. It's why many people argue that art can be empathy-generating.
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Moreover, professional courses such aslaw and medicine in the United States are offered only as second degrees,after the candidate has already received a bachelor’s degree in some othersubject, whether history or philosophy; in Europe students enter suchcourses directly
Fascinating how the US is focused more on the liberal arts approach as compared to Europe; specifically encouraging students to get their bachelor's in diverse and often humanistic areas. Advanced degrees, in the US, are then given for highly specialized areas like medicine and law.
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Global citizenship entails an awareness of the interdependence of individuals and systems and a sense of responsibility that follows from it.
There's this palpable sense of responsibility that comes along with being a global citizen. There is, in fact, so much responsibility we can take that denial is often our first strategy. On the other extreme, there are those who try to save the entire world and accomplish nothing. Taking responsibility is a delicate balancing act.
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Participation is the action dimension of global citizenship.
Get out there and vote!
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Democracy means that the people are sovereign, but if there is no way of delimiting who the people are, they cannot exercise democratic choice.
Fukuyama is careful not to suggest that unfettered immigration is a good thing. It could be "costly both economically and socially." And all of this is part of the larger project of defining who the people of the democracy are. Without this definition, the democracy in question is at risk of disintegrating. Really fascinating.
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Societies thrive on trust, but they need the widest possible radius of trust ― enabled by an overarching sense of shared identity ― in order to flourish.
Shared identity helps to create trust.
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Because human beings naturally crave recognition, the modern sense of identity evolves quickly into identity politics, in which individuals demand public recognition of their worth.
It's interesting how we've moved from individual egos to collective egos through which people "demand public recognition of their worth."
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In the second decade of the twenty-first century, that spectrum appears to be giving way in many regions to one defined by identity.
Fukuyama suggests that our bipartisan system has shifted its locus from issues of economics to issues of identity. Subjectively, this explains pretty well how it feels to participate in American Democracy today.
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As Febvre and Martin remind us, the printed book kept a permanentform, capable of virtually infinite reproduction, temporally and spatially.
The printed word's immutability and duplicability helped create the "image of antiquity" so crucial for nation-building. How romantic it is to read words that are hundreds of years old...
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Particular languages can die or be wiped out, but there was and is no possibilityof humankind's general linguistic unification.
Anderson suggests that humankind will never all speak the same language. Anecdotally, however, it seems like educated people are consolidating into a handful of languages.
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Absurdity of salvation: nothing makes another style of con-tinuity more necessary.
Anderson argues that nationalism may be an attempt to create a faux immortality; you may die, but your nation will live on. Reminds me of soldiers who sacrifice themselves for their country. Also reminds me of specific laws that apply to people's property after death; inheritance taxes, intellectual property, patents, etc..
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this suggests a strong affinity with religiousimaginings
Anderson suggests that here's a link between religion and nationalism. This is in agreement with Spiral Dynamics, one model I've come across.
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Thedeterminativefact about Latin - aside from its sacrality - was that it was alanguage of bilinguals. Relatively few were bor'n to speak it and even fewer,one imagines, dreamed in it.
Interesting how Latin is often learned for "fun." Hardly anyone speaks Latin as their primary language.
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Combined, these ideas
Language, Hierarchical Rulers, and The Big Bang
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