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The Differences Between Shared Knowledge And Personal Knowledge

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To address this question we must distinguish between shared knowledge and personal knowledge. Shared knowledge is information that is known by most people in regards to a community. This might include facts or interpretations that are common among a community. For example utilitarianism in ethics is the greatest good for the greatest amount of people. Personal knowledge is the knowledge acquired from the experiences of a certain individual. I would say that shared knowledge shapes personal knowledge. This is mainly because from the day we are born we are influenced by many factors that define our character, such as culture, parents, education or religion. Over the course of history we have seen leaders that transformed vast populations with …show more content…

Realism refers to a specific technique of representing medium realistically without any modifications. The Catholic church was the supreme ruler of most of Europe at the the time of realism art movement. Perhaps, this is a reason for seeing numerous figures of christianity and biblical stories depicted in art works at that time. Most of the population was christian at the time of the realism movement and the shared knowledge was that of religion so the paintings of biblical stories were seen as devotional objects. The shared knowledge provided by the church has influenced many artists of that time who are still remembered today. For instance, Michelangelo one of the most famous artist of that time hit the peak of his career when he painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel narrating stories from the book of genesis from the old testament. On the grounds that churches were an important part of social and cultural life of european population, has influenced the artists to paint and sculpt accordingly; as the shared knowledge was that of religious grounds. Images were portrayed realistically as any modification of what christian figures (i.e saints or angels) might have looked like would have been considered as

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