Ruth Benedict, Anthropology & Abnormal | Normality, Abnormality & Culture | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Ruth Benedict's article "Anthropology and the Abnormal", which is often excerpted and anthologized as "A Defense of Cultural Relativism". In it, she argues that the categories of normality and abnormality - which are connected with conceptions of goodness and badness - are culturally dependent and determined.
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#Benedict #relativism #culture
My notes, not a substitute for watching the video yourself, just plotting a rough outline
0:50 Ruth Benedict’s _Anthropology And The Abnormal_
3:17 Civilizations are akin to languages
4:54 Normality is culturally defined. “Every society... carries its preferences farther and farther.”
6:37 Morality is established by civilizations which have over time developed a social/cultural framework
7:28 Cultures determines which
- Personality traits
- Desires
Etc.
Are Normal or Not Normal
9:12 Conversion/Indoctrination/Molding
11:00 The Development of Music, Cultural Development And Change
12:46 Transphenomena and Catalysis
13:46 Homosexuality and Gender in the past and present
16:11 Paranoia or Rationality?
19:20 Cultural Relativism
You’re the effing man professor!!! Thank you for taking the time to provide students with an understandable discourse of complicated philosophical writings. When I graduate, I owe you a lifetime supply of coffee, as a token of gratitude for all the help!!!
You're very welcome!
Thank you Professor for posting these videos. With online learning being the norm now these have been extremely useful
You're very welcome!
That was very well explained, thank you!!
This is really fascinating stuff. It'd be cool if you could do more short videos on ideas from Anthropology. I feel like the ideas from Anthropology are often under-explained or not given the attention they deserve. Cultural Relativism is a perfect example.
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Amazing video! I have always wondered why no anthropologists have been the topics of many(or any;I couldn't find one and I scrolled back 4 years worth of videos to try to find an anthropologist)videos on this channel. Also, there was no anthropology books in your book collection when you did your library video.Have you read much anthropology literature?
Philosophical observations ultimately become contained in the bracket of anthropology but not necessarily to the extent of ethnobiology, history and regional customs. Where concepts are universal in culture then surely there exists at its limits deviance to the table of values and beliefs in tradition.
I wasn't responding to any of the above points in the header post.
I'm not an anthropologist
What if morality is analogous to semantics and “virtuous behavior” (expressions of morality via action) is analogous to the phonemic system? We could analyze morality through three different analogies, actually:
Analogous to phonemic structure
Analogous to syntax
Analogous to semantics
And we would get three different pictures of “what morality is”. Each analogy could be valuable in its own way.
It’s not.
i'm wearing a burzum shirt as i listen to this.. ;) i love the painting he used for this album, of the very old man lying in the wooded scandanavian path, dead with birds escaping from him; its my own idea of perfect death for my own self ☆ both that album and the painting says it all. but so many westerners dont want to die alone...
the album is 'until the light takes us'
No idea what you’re talking about or what it is due with Ruth Benedict
@GregoryBSadler I was watching this video and you were talking about heavy metal, and what society deems as normal, and this is a black metal band
Yeah you gotta supply context. I’ve shot close to 3000 videos.
@@GregoryBSadler of course ... at about 11 min into video, 11:09, the development of the various genres of metal.... and how the outsider views the genre... how cultures are dynamic throughout time, and how to compare behaviors which are considered normal. / i got excited bc you mentioned metal. and devaint behavior! / i was reading margaret mead and then i found this video. here's to women pioneers; i love this gen of anthropology :)