Essays Tagged: "Subjectivism"

Did Hitler Rule a Totalitarian State?

eople, his personal will as Fuehrer was granted the right of unrestricted realisation. Totalitarian subjectivism, the unlimited claim of a single person to dominate an entire people, found its undisgu ...

(3 pages) 54 0 3.5 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

The construct of the western democratic moral.

ty of values or principles that are relevant to moral judgment are grounded in either relativism or subjectivism or a combination of both . She further questions whether pluralism is actually an appro ... ology and social conditioning according to Wolf . Therefore, she at length discusses relativism and subjectivism to stamp home the view that 'people, even intelligent people, make mistakes. Sometimes ...

(4 pages) 39 0 4.3 Dec/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Relativism versus Objectivism

is the view that states that moral principles vary by culture (conventionalism) or by individuals (subjectivism). Conventionalists like Ruth Benedict argue that since different cultures hold differen ... hat we've come to use for socially approved habits, and normal is a variant of the concept of good. Subjectivism is the extreme end of relativism. This view holds that morality is determined at the in ...

(5 pages) 124 0 4.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy

Cultural relativism; Moral relativism; Subjectivism

wrong, good, or bad, why is it? It cannotsimply be a statement unless it is personal tastes.As for subjectivism, it is a theory based solely on our thoughts, no proof oroutside influences. It states ...

(1 pages) 80 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

COMPARE AND CONTRAST BOURDIEU'S APPROACH TO THE AGENCY/STRUCTURE DICHOTOMY WITH THAT OF GIDDENS

f habitus and field is concerned principally with overcoming the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism. While there are many differences between these two theories, there are in fact a few s ... 's theory of habitus and field was concerned with overcoming the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism. Objectivists ignore agency and the agent, while subjectivists focus on the way agents ...

(11 pages) 143 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Idealism In Literature

Nineteenth century literature is full of allusions and examples of idealism and romantic subjectivism. Society at the time is quite preoccupied with the bourgeois lifestyle and seems to neg ...

(5 pages) 12 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

SUBJECTIVISM VS. OBJECTIVISM

Subjectivism is the theory that as humans, we can't know everything, or even KNOWS anything for sure ... ently and what maybe real for one person is not necessarily real to the next person.The opposite of subjectivism is objectivism; the theory that says certain acts is objectively right or wrong regardl ... plausible to say that moral values are subjective and change from an individual to another.However, subjectivism also contradicts itself in some circumstances but it can be explained. Subjectivism cla ...

(5 pages) 16 0 0.0 Mar/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy