All bodies have
three dimensions: length, width, and height. But as persons we human beings
have at least three other dimensions, or “directions,” in which we can act
as human beings: making, doing, and knowing.
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2
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3
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Making
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Doing
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Knowing
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| We are
artists. (art – anything artificial, or man-made) We make everything from clothes, to paintings, to a large hadron collider. |
We are moral
and social beings. We achieve, or fail to achieve, happiness by doing right or wrong. What we do inevitabley puts us in contact with other people. |
We are
learners. We acquire knowledge about nature, society, ourselves, and even knowledge itself (as we are right now) |
"Productive"
thinking
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"Practical"
thinking
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"Speculative,"
or "Theoretical" thinking
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Concerned
with
“the Beautiful”
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“the
Good”
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“the
Truth”
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