How Does Experience Shape Perspective?

Different opinions are almost as common as ants or grass blades. They’re everywhere, and show up in many different topics. Even when given the same information or base knowledge, people can form different opinions. People can have completely different ideas about what a painting represents, although they are seeing the same painting. This is due, in part, to the different perspectives that people view the world with. It also has to do with the emotional response that art and something like ethical choices elicit in a person. It’s not going to be the same for everyone, because not everyone has the same viewpoint. So what shapes perspective? In many and most ways, perspective about different things is based off of the experiences people go through. So, looking at the same painting, two art critics can have completely opposing opinions, largely due to perspective, which is largely based on experience. To what extent does experience shape the perspective that a person has about different topics …show more content…
Moral codes on a national scale are always going to be vague and inclusive, as well as exclusive. Usually, it’s seemed to be ethically wrong to murder someone. However, the ancient Aztecs used to perform human sacrifices. To us in modern times, this is such a foreign concept that it seems barbaric but the Aztecs didn’t even see it as murder at all. Murder as a bad thing did exist in their ancient society but human sacrifice was a necessary component to their perceived happiness and wellbeing, therefore they didn’t believe that it was a bad thing. A more recent example of different perspectives: slaves. Up until recently, it was deemed ethically okay by multitudes of people to own slaves, but now that sort of thing would unheard of. Different perspectives are all that matters. Location, nurture and environment affect thing like an ethical code, leading to many variables in the development of