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![]() Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback)Volume 105 Issue 1, Pages 25 - 53 Published Online: 8 Aug 2005 © 2009 The Aristotelian Society
Abstract | Full Text: PDF (Size: 4112K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking II *—REALISM AND RELATIVISM IN THE THEORY OF ART Pluralism—the incommensurability and, at times, incompatibility of objective ends—is not relativism, nor, a fortiori, subjectivism, nor the allegedly unbridgeable differences of emotional attitude on which some modern positivists, emotivists, existentialists, nationalists and, indeed, relativistic sociologists and anthropologists found their accounts. Isaiah Berlin
*Meeting of the Aristotelian Society, held in Senate House, University of London, on Monday, 25 October, 2004 at 4.15 p.m. Copyright The Aristotelian Society 2005 ABSTRACTABSTRACT Some twentieth-century ideas about realism in the visual arts are criticized, a new framework for thinking about realism is proposed, and the analogy between languages and period styles in art is reassessed. |