Thursday, April 16, 2009

TOK-Rationalism

Rationalism:
Taking a hypothetical situation with one real life incident:
Powerful Emotions:
M.F.Hussain is an artist and one of his paintings depicts Lord Krishna (a Hindu God) naked. This hurts the sentiments of the Hare Rama Hare Krishna Sect (a group of people who are devotees of Lord Krishna). They are angry and disgusted with the artist M.F.Hussain.

Biased Perception:
The sect recognises majority of the paintings as blasphemous or insulting to Gods and they do not appreciate any other painting even though it is good.

Fallacious Reasoning:
The sect states that art is a medium by which people express their indignity towards God and all paintings are insulting God.

Emotive Language:
Hence the sect concludes that art should be band and all artists paint obscene pictures of God.

1 comment:

  1. I'm not sure this example is terrific... anyway kudos for the effort, if I may add!
    Its "banned", not "band" pls... ;)

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