this short essay my goal is to venture into the role of story-telling and narratives in anthropological discipline and give one take on how it is possible to understand the given role. By drawing on Tim Ingold`s understanding of the processes of getting to know phenomena existing in the world around us I shortly discuss the idea of fieldwork as a cognitive journey defined by reflexivity. When doing fieldwork the anthropologist inevitably joins the stories shared with her with personal stories, meaning
Roots formed in Memory and Ethnicity Different social scientists have used various approaches to explain ethnicity when trying to understand the nature of it as a factor in human life and society. Examples of such approaches are: modernism, primordialism, constructivism, essentialism, perennialism, and instrumentalism. Whether you agree or disagree with their proposed theories, one fact remains true: ethnicity is an important substance for human beings, especially in identifying oneself
significance of personal identity in a society in which individuality is supressed. This is shown through the narrative of the narrator, living that period of time. Racism is used to illustrate the restriction and suppression of personal identity and its
For my essay I chose to write about Martin Luther King Jr. to describe why he was such an influential role model at the time and how he came to become such an inspirational leader, even up until this date. The reason why I chose to write about him is not only because he became an inspiration to millions of people around the globe, but also because I believe that without him, the status quo of the time would never have changed the way it did, to lead up to contemporary society. Through his great achievements
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
will he experience practical freedom. In this Critique, Kant’s main purpose is not to draw the reader’s attention to actual moral experience, and the First Critique does not actually explain the moral philosophy. Kant’s ultimate aim is to demonstrate how metaphysics could be possible; in doing this, he constructs his transcendental philosophy. It seems Kant does not want to go further which has led critics to argue that Kant gave an unclear exposition here and in preceding writings, thereby muddling
Section I in Groundwork: It is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will (Gr. 4:393) Good will includes several features: it is neither merely designed to make us happy, nor does it rely on the consequences of an act or unconditional good. While we may doubt the solidity of Kant’s theory as a way to support his definition of goodwill, for Kant’s practical philosophy, the real problem is how an agent
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of