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II *—REALISM AND RELATIVISM IN THE THEORY OF ART
John Hyman 1
  1 The Queen's College, Oxford OX1 4AW

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 1

 

1 . 'Alleged Relativism in Eighteenth-Century European Thought', repr. in The Crooked Timber of Humanity (London: John Murray, 1990), p. 87.

 

*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

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ABSTRACT 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.


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