reflectionism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The view that cultural phenomena (literature, art, etc.) simply mirror the ideology of…

   The view that cultural phenomena (literature, art, etc.) simply mirror the ideology of the dominant economic patterns of society.

   • Economic determinism is the central tenet of political theory and "naive" reflectionism is the basic premise of cultural theory.
   • Reflectionism is the other side of the coin of normative realism .
   • Aesthetically, such a position locates the genre of hip hop within the orthodox Marxist theory of representation that is commonly known as reflectionism, and associated with Marxist theorist and literary critic, Georg Lukács.
2. 2

   The belief that we apprehend the world by copying or reflecting it within the mind

   The belief that we apprehend the world by copying or reflecting it within the mind; the idea that thought is a reflection of reality, rather than something created by the mind.

   • Doesn't reflectionism itself imply that ontology is somehow prior?
   • Reflectionism is a philosophy that paradoxically accepts both monistic and dualistic views. This amounts to "having your cake and eating it too."
3. 3

   The belief that judgement is intuitive and that reflection and reason are subsequently…

   The belief that judgement is intuitive and that reflection and reason are subsequently applied to justify judgements.

   • I hope by now to have shown that there is good reason to think that ethical reflectionism is a framework of moral inquiry which is far more common than it may appear.
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   • In Audi's view, the method of reflectionism is and deserves to be our basic method for justifying ethical judgments' (1993, 208)
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   1. 4

      The use of reflection to examine and critique aspects of society.

      • Reflectionism allows society to confront itself or to see its own absurdity.
      • The successor to surrealism, from which it borrows its pictorial vocabulary and has assimilated all inflow, reflectionism seeks first and foremost to develop and extend the freedom of the real function of thought.

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