The speaker is talking about a BBC’s program to opens the market place for ideas from around the globe. He is a historian on a modern China, teaching the Oxford University, but today he wants to ask for values that we think are universal in our daily life. His first guest today, Steven Lucks, is professor of Sociology at New York University, and he’ll be asking which about marrow believes in universally held and which is saved by the cultures to be grown up in; and his second guest, Margaret Fords, landscape architect teaching at Harvard University, where she explains that landscape could benefit from breathy light of plastic blocks. Before to start the discussion, the speaker would like to know about what’s the guests own favourite landscape. Steven used to live in Italy, and he said that his favourite landscape is the rolling hills with a wonderful blue colour in the sky that he could see from his house. Whereas her favourite landscape is a broke French one in south of Paris, probably the most beautiful landscape in the world for her: but she also likes too much a landscape from Oakland, because you can walk from he streets in five minutes and arrive to a tropical forest, and she thinks that it’s wonderful. When speaker ask for the sociologist about values and morality in other places at the world, and which the people’s attitude about that is, and if he thinks that values are universal or relative, I’m agree with Steven when he, amongst other things, wonders who could give definitions, and who could rule the right norm to judge the moral or values universally; I do think it seems impossible! I am of the belief that this is the conflict between universality of human being and their actions in every place at the whole world, and in the other hand the specific nature of each style life in each country. According to my opinion, all we’re living in a very different ways of live and we practice different kinds of customs, as Steven wants to discuss on his book, and in general is very difficult to be objective when you try to judge other conducts in other parts of the world, especially if you haven’t ever been there. So maybe it’s better resist the temptation to judge values and morality from other cultures or ages with your own and subjective point of view, or in other words, with the point of view of your own culture or epoch.
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The speaker is talking about a BBC’s program to opens the market place for ideas from around the globe. He is a historian on a modern China, teaching the Oxford University, but today he wants to ask for values that we think are universal in our daily life. His first guest today, Steven Lucks, is professor of Sociology at New York University, and he’ll be asking which about marrow believes in universally held and which is saved by the cultures to be grown up in; and his second guest, Margaret Fords, landscape architect teaching at Harvard University, where she explains that landscape could benefit from breathy light of plastic blocks. Before to start the discussion, the speaker would like to know about what’s the guests own favourite landscape. Steven used to live in Italy, and he said that his favourite landscape is the rolling hills with a wonderful blue colour in the sky that he could see from his house. Whereas her favourite landscape is a broke French one in south of Paris, probably the most beautiful landscape in the world for her: but she also likes too much a landscape from Oakland, because you can walk from he streets in five minutes and arrive to a tropical forest, and she thinks that it’s wonderful. When speaker ask for the sociologist about values and morality in other places at the world, and which the people’s attitude about that is, and if he thinks that values are universal or relative, I’m agree with Steven when he, amongst other things, wonders who could give definitions, and who could rule the right norm to judge the moral or values universally; I do think it seems impossible! I am of the belief that this is the conflict between universality of human being and their actions in every place at the whole world, and in the other hand the specific nature of each style life in each country. According to my opinion, all we’re living in a very different ways of live and we practice different kinds of customs, as Steven wants to discuss on his book, and in general is very difficult to be objective when you try to judge other conducts in other parts of the world, especially if you haven’t ever been there. So maybe it’s better resist the temptation to judge values and morality from other cultures or ages with your own and subjective point of view, or in other words, with the point of view of your own culture or epoch.
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