PHIL1001 ESSAY Evaluate Rachel’s arguments against cultural relativism. Is he right to endorse objective moral realism? DINH NAM TRAN 308213904 Cultural relativism‚ as defined by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. “Is the thesis that a person’s culture strongly influences her modes of perception and thought” Most cultural relativists add to this definition saying that there is no standard of morality. This means that morality is relative to the particular society that one lives in
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used to generate an infinite variety of messages (Wayne Weiten‚ 2008). The universal concept of language refers to the cognitive faculty that allowing human being to learn and also use the system of complex communication in their daily life. As for cultural identity‚ it is being defined as the identity of a certain group of culture of a particular person. In American anthropology‚ culture can be interpreted as sets of ideal life practices and routines that are being set up by people that come from different
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illustrate the changes and development of the creative/cultural industry due to the effects of globalisation. Globalisation‚ according to the Collins Dictionary is “"process enabling financial and investment markets to operate internationally‚ largely as a result of deregulation and improved communications". “The cultural industries have moved closer to the centre of the economic action in many countries and across much of the world. Cultural industry companies can no longer be seen as secondary
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To what extent was fascism responsible for the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939? There is much debate surrounding the reasons for war in Europe in 1939‚ however it is clear the Fascism played a foundational role in the causes of war by underpinning the decisions made by the authoritarian figure Hitler. By having leadership that initiated a revolutionary political movement aiming to reorganize the nation along principles according to fascist ideology ultimately lead to war in Europe. Hitler rose
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Bibliography: Pearce‚ Robert. Fascism and Nazism (Access to History). Hodder Arnold H&S‚ 1997. Boxer‚ Andrew. Hitler ’s Domestic Policy. Collins Educational‚ 1997. Sassoon‚ Donald. Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism. HarperPress‚ 2008. Bosworth‚ Richard. Mussolini ’s Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945. Allen Lane‚ 2005.
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dictatorships controlled over the masses and sought to mobilize them. Mussolini spike of the “free totalitarian will”. People linked Italian and German fascism with USSR communism. There was an Alliance with Stalin and Hitler in 1929. The war called forth tendency to subordinate all intuitions and classes to achieve victory. The Nature of Modern war (Fascism‚ Nazism‚ and Communism). Lenin carried WW1 in the Russian civil war. Lenin showed how a dedicated minority could achieve victory over a less determined
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1. Describe the political beliefs of Vladimir Lenin. * Lenin was a Marxist. He preached that private property should be abolished and that everything should be owned by everyone. He also believed that anybody making profit was abusing everybody else and that the Russian government supported a system that kept the huge majority of Russian people in misery and therefore it should be overthrown. 2. What did Lenin promise the people of Russia in order to gain their support for the Revolution
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as mayor of Calcutta -- the fervent young Bose first expressed his support for a fusion of socialism and fascism: / 1 “... I would say we have here in this policy and program a synthesis of what modern Europe calls Socialism and Fascism. We have here the justice‚ the equality‚ the love‚ which is the basis of Socialism‚ and combined with that we have the efficiency and the discipline of Fascism as it stands in Europe today.” In years that followed‚ the brilliant‚ eclectic Bengali would occasionally
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opposite effect occurred. The increase in nationalism that WWI brought with it came a change in the way governments ruled their people. Ultimately‚ this era saw a contraction in civil rights worldwide because of the rise of socialism and fascism. The road to fascism begins in Russia. Russia had always struggled with being slightly behind other nations from a modernization standpoint. This became an even greater issue when it tried to industrialize and modernize itself too quickly. Such a radical change
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Cultural appropriation defines as someone taking or borrowing aspects of another culture that is not their own. Cultural appropriation allows privileged races to take cultural aspects from subordinate groups while simultaneously reinforcing racial stereotypes. Many may hear the term “privilege” and wonder exactly who falls into this category when it comes to practicing certain elements of a culture. Author Jean Halley argues‚ “…privilege became ensconced [into the media] through the socioeconomic
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