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TOK Essay Unpacking Is subjectivity overly celebrated in the arts and…

- - - - Arts: Differing background and experiences, leading to: multiple interpretations, opinions and evaluation.
        History: Differing perspective also, bias from cultural background and identity. Produce different narratives.
        
        In history, can all naratives diverting from different background be accepted in the same existence?
  - - - In the arts:
        
        Diverse expressions
        
        Interpretation and reception
        
        Cultural and historical context
        
        Changing trends
        
        In history:
        
        Interpretation and bias
        
        Multiple perspectives
        
        Changing narratives
        
        Marginalized voices
        
        Can subjectivity inhibit the growth of scope of the arts and history?
  - - - Arts: Our personal opinions and interpretations of art are influenced by many factors, including our backgrounds, preferences, and life experiences. No two people have the exact same view, and this diversity of perception contributes to rich and deeper appreciations of art.
        History: Perspective can produce bias would reflect political, religious, or other affiliations that have no place in responsible historical scholarship
- - - - Advantages:
        
        general subjective measures can effectively capture changes in both the explicit and the implicit components of the variable being measured
        
        Disadvantages:
        
        suffer from many systematic biases related to order, scale and halo-effects (The generalisation in evaluating)
  - - - Reason:
        
        to inspire
        
        relate with people
        
        evoke emotions; anger, sad, happy
        
        When do we overly celebrate subjectivity:
        
        When the ideas and implications of it triggers the ethical and moral values.
  - - - uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect
  - - - Reason:
        
        causes individuals to focus on what they want to see rather than looking at all of the facts
        
        to assimilate knowledge it has to be concrete, supported by evidences; artifacts, transcipt, videos, pictures etc.
        
        When do we unfairrly condemn subjectivity?
        
        When the differing perspective that we condemn, does not pose any danger to anyone's narrative.
        
        When we condemn other people's narrative for the benefit of our own.
- - - - Claim: Subjectivity in the history accounts of the war
    - - Claim: The narrative of european centrism as the main narrative of the history of the world, while unfairly condemning other nations perspective.
  - - - Claim: Subjectivity is necessary to challenge the claim that the arts is too objective
- - - - Cant the arts use objective measures to evaluate arts?
    - - Can ethics limit the subjectivity of the arts?
  - - - Would pushing the idea of subjectivity affect the history?
  - - - Of course, because the main purpose of arts in on itself is to convey messages that express how we feel. They embody our thoughts and experiences that we want to spread to the viewers.
    - - Subjectivity is necessary to a certain extent in history, especially when it involves two sides with different perspective, background knowledge and experiences. Because of these factors, it is hard to determine which one is the absolute truth, condemning history because of this can lead to a lifetime long of argument.