Ethnocentrism is the way an individual look at the world from his/her own beliefs in their culture. They feel that their culture, race, or ethnic group is more significant and that their culture is more superior than any other culture of other groups. In feeling this way the individuals will judge other groups, such as their behavior, the language in which they use, religion. How it could be detrimental to society is that it could lead to false speculation about the differences in cultures. It leads to society making premature judgments about other cultures, not knowing all the facts about another culture.
However, from an aesthetic standpoint the additions constituted a major alterationto Moroni's original composition and detracted from its appearance. It was the decision of both conservators and curators that the historic interest of the additions was far outweighed by the aesthetic dictates of the picture. Given that, one course of action might have been to paint out the additions so that the painting would read as the artist intended but the inscription and coat of arms could be uncovered at a later date. We are inevitably subject to the tastes and prejudices of our time, and in this way a decision could be made while leaving options open. However, the subtle handling and the fall of light would have been hard to imitate convincingly, and a further overpainting would have been one more step away from Moroni's original paint.
Cultural Relativism, a term used to describe individual’s beliefs that should be accepted in one’s cultural but also can be denied in society. In James Rachels’ essay, “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism”, she brings up varies examples that contradicts with one society’s beliefs to another society. She uses this term and analyzes it different situations proving that it can be controversial at times since no one should have the same thinking process as another person. For example, if you were to take to civilizations of the past and tell them to trade beliefs. They would find it outrages since it would be unorthodox to their teachings.
I have come to understand that when change is forced upon, it may be detrimental’ leading to conflict and struggle to remain true to ourselves. This is seen the texts studied thus far. In ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde, ‘Echo and Narcissus’ by Ovid and ‘The Rabbits’ by Shaun Tan characters are challenged by forceful influences or lack self-awareness which leads them to a unfortunate pathway to self-destruction. Resisting the nature the change can have a detrimental effect to our journey to personal growth. Other may take advantage of one’s naivety and innocence and take the opportunity to negatively influence them for their own satisfaction.
Abused as the term is, its overuse nevertheless signifies a general cultural difficulty in understanding and interpreting contemporary art ("to name is to know" becomes the axiom, from the entertainment pages of newspapers to the critical investigation of literary texts). The prevalence of the term also speaks of the manner in which the various arts media have become intermixed: there is a degree of accuracy in relating Philip Glass and John Cage and Samuel Beckett, owing to their shared interest in "silence" and repetition, for instance. A term that is so pervasive in so many diverse areas of concern would seem to defy an all-encompassing definition. (3) [pic]Literary minimalism appears to be somewhat protean in its manifestations; Barth describes minimalist writing as being "terse, oblique, realistic or hyperrealistic, slightly plotted, extrospective, cool-surfaced fiction," but he then speaks of Beckett, Carver and Donald Barthelme as being minimalists all in the same breath ("A Few Words . .
I believe that Cultural Relativism is acceptable today as there are no universal moral truths. In different cultures certain actions have different meanings and we coming from different cultures find it difficult to comprehend the historical and cultural practices. It is more important to look at the act in context of that particular cultures moral stand on what is right and wrong. Cultural relativism is seen as wrong by many people due to what is considered inhumane by other cultural standards yet it comes down to the point of who can justify what is morally right and wrong and should we try and westernize these cultures which in the end will destroy their cultures belief and years of cultural practice. No one can ultimately set out a list of moral universal truths as they could not possibly take into consideration all practices upheld by different cultures.
Ethical Relativism is the value systems I relate to Ethical relativism is the thesis that ethical principles or judgments are relative to the individual or culture. When stated so vaguely numerous people and a sizeable contingent of philosophers embrace relativism. Other philosophers, however, find the thesis patently false, even wonder how anyone could seriously entertain it. Both factions are on to something, yet both miss something significant as well. Those who whole-heartedly embrace relativism note salient respects, in which ethics is relative, yet erroneously infer that ethical values are noxiously subjective.
First of all, without proper analysis and careful reflection, according to Kavanaugh, the conclusions and insights are made shallow and sentimental. Secondly, these questions and the whole idea of Philosophy is, according to Pryor, that it should not be fully objective nor should it be fully objective. What this means is that like what Kavanaugh said, although Philosophy starts from the self due to our self-reflection and other things but we should also learn to de-emphasize ourselves and open ourselves to the influence of others too. On the contrary, total objectivity should also be avoided because having no connection to the self would make the ideas we form wholly made up of the ideas of others which is not correct because it disregards our own experiences. Additionally, possessing total objectivity would mean that there would be a constant, objective answer to all the questions being posed which would defeat the purpose of Philosophy and hamper the growth of our knowledge through
Art History Short Paper Anthony Tunison Art has different meanings to different people, which makes it difficult to explain the true meaning of the subject. Differing opinions and upbringings may alter the viewer's interpretation of a work of art. So how would one explain works of art to someone who is unable to see them? The most intricate, yet simplistic way is to use the senses other than sight. The artists in the following pieces have given beautiful pieces to incite feelings and emotions to an unseeing audience.
Some countries, such as France, resist this influence because they see it as a threat to their unique national culture. People, especially the impressionable, take what the media says to heart and begin following trends, accepting certain ideas as truth, deciding what fun is depending on what the media claims is fun or boring, etc. References Lule, J. (2012) Exploring media and culture. Irvington, NY: Flat World