A podcast about rhetoric and current events hosted by M. Elizabeth Thorpe, PhD. In this podcast we explore the way big ideas from the world of rhetoric apply to every day life. We focus on major events that are shaping the world today and consider how those things that sometimes seem like they belong in the ivory tower can actually help us make sense of the life we are living. This isn’t a podcast for the experts. This is a podcast for the intellectually curious.
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Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
The COVID crisis has made it abundantly clear that we cannot understand our world through one perspective or discipline. We need science, the social sciences, and the humanities to tackle current problems. This episode discusses the work of Descartes and Vico, two thinkers who had divergent views of methods of inquiry, but have a lot of insight into the kinds of thinking we need to address the problems we face in the modern era. We need both the objective facts and the relational understanding of the humanities to understand our world. Read the blog post of this episode at https://kairoticast.com/episode-two-covid-the-arts-and-the-sciences/. Learn more about Kairoticast at https://kairoticast.com. Music in this episode is "Fearless First" by Kevin MacLeod at https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3742-fearless-first licensed under CC-BY.
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