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Exploring philosophy: faking nature
Exploring philosophy: faking nature

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2 Your views

You’ll start by doing a quick check on your views on restoration before doing the course. At the end, you will be linked back to this and you will be able to consider whether your views have changed. Answer the questions in the activity below. Although the issues are complicated, try to keep your answers simple (a sentence or two, or simply ‘yes’ or ‘no’) as that will make it easier to compare your views now with those you will have later.

Activity 1

Timing: Spend around 5 minutes on this activity.

In the text box below, make some brief notes on your views in response to the following questions.

  1. Can damage ever be made right? Can restoration ever make anything ‘as good as it was before’?
  2. When a piece of nature or a damaged building is restored, does it become something authentic, or is it a fake? Can nature or buildings ever be restored and not faked?
  3. Should objects be restored to ‘as good as new’ or only to how they were immediately before they were damaged?
  4. Is it always better to have an original than it is to have a copy?
  5. If it is impossible to have the original, is a copy better than nothing?
  6. What is valuable about originals anyway?
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