POLS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Milan Kundera, Gustave Flaubert, French Revolution

• School: York University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1000
• Professor: Martin Breaugh

Document Summary

Critical (skills) does not refer to the quality of the conclusion it comes to be it good or bad. Being critical it is a thinking process that aims at evaluating. Critical thinking evaluation must be based on thinking process (history, relevance, context etc) Critical thinking can only be learned through practice. Literature and politics are united through the desire for immortality. Both literature and politics allow us to go beyond our mortal nature. They allow people to leave traces in the world. They cheat death of its" consequences: to be forgotten. Milan kundera born in brno in 1929 talks about ignorance and stupidity and the distinction between them. The art of the novel essays in here we find the jerusalem address . Milan kundera talks about gustave flaubert (1821-1880) (gustave flaubert) he was a 19th century novelist, who wrote madame bovarie ;