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The Anthropology of Time, 2021 In this essay I argue against Cultural Relativism by pointing out that while there are not universal moral values in the strict sense (meaning 100% agreement) there are widely held moral values that most people in most cultures believe in. This ought to be enough to establish that there is a world culture with some well-established cultural norms ...
David Johnson
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When the ethical is unethical and the unethical is ethical: Cultural Relativism in Ethical Decision-Making [PDF]
Polish Psychological Bulletin, 2019 : It is nearly impossible to study behaviour effectively without any reference to its context. This is because it is generally known in the psychological literature that behaviour is partially a product of its environment.
Seth Oppong
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On the Changeful History of Franz Boas’s Concept of Cultural Relativism
Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift, 2023 Cultural relativism has its roots in an era long before the emergence of anthropology. Anthropologists, and Franz Boas in particular, took up this concept in order to establish the paradigm of a holistic description of cultures.
Hans Hahn
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Human Rights Quarterly, 2000 A brief reference article on cultural relativism, forthcoming in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ...
Tilley, John J.
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Human Rights beyond Dichotomy between Cultural Universalism and Relativism
Age of Human Rights Journal, 2020 The consolidation of relations of global society requires the progressive establishment of a global legal system, consisting of a system of rules - precisely, human rights - as the source and evaluation criteria of positive national rights.
Edna Raquel Hogemann
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Cultural relativism and cultural absolutism
Acta Academica, 2005 Cultural relativism suffers from two flaws: a logical flaw and a conceptual one. The logical flaw relates to the differentiation between the absolute mind and the relative mind.
Fritz Wallner
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Global citizenship and the challenge from cultural relativism
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2017 Do human beings live in a shared world or in several? The traditional answer from social and cultural anthropology has been that although the physical world is uniform, the world as it is perceived by humans is fundamentally and irreducibly diverse ...
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
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Who is (not) afraid of (cultural) relativism?
Tracés, 2007 I examine the thesis of “cultural relativism” (in both its descriptive and normative version) in an effort to ascertain and impeach more perspicuously the reasons for the strong appeal it continues to exert today in a globalizing/glocalising world –and ...
Nader N. Chokr
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Impact of Ethical Ideologies on Students’ Attitude toward Animals—A Pakistani Perspective [PDF]
Animals, 2023 Idealism and relativism are components of ethical ideologies which have been explored in relation to animal welfare and attitudes, and potential cultural differences.
Asiya Khalid, Pim Martens, Aliya Khalid
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Adam Smith and cultural relativism
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2011 This paper explores the presence of both relativistic and universalistic elements in Adam Smith’s moral philosophy. It argues that Smith is more sympathetic to the concerns of anthropologists than most philosophers have been, but still tries to uphold ...
Samuel Fleischacker
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