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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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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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Liu Xiaobo and “Charter 08”: Freedom of Expression and Cultural Relativism [PDF]

Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2018
Late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo represents the fate of a typical case of a dissident in contemporary China under the Communist regime. The Communist China regime always defends against any criticism of its human rights records, in particular ...
Patrick Kar-wai Poon
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Cultural Relativism, Cultural Difference

, 2017
Cultural relativism, like cultural absolutism or cultural pluralism, refers to a theoretical system for classifying and understanding human variation. The concept of cultural relativism emerged as a set of descriptive and epistemological precepts within American anthropology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, more broadly, in the
Angela Mitropoulos
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Cultural Relativism in Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Cultural and Religious Rituals [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
According to the current interpretation, Wittgenstein in "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough" takes an expressive approach to religious rituals and cultural practices. Relying on this approach, he criticizes Frazer's view.
Hossein Shaqaqi
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Relativism and anthropology [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2006
This paper focuses on the impact of relativism within anthropology as a discipline. Relativistic conceptions, account for in this analysis, emerged both from philosophy (philosophy of science in particular) and anthropology.
Radović Srđan
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Effects of Covid-19 on cultural relativism and state sovereignty [PDF]

Eastern Journal of European Studies, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has generally affected the attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles of people and states. Although there is still no definitive position on the causes of the new species from the coronavirus family, there have been articles and ...
Avni RUDAKU, Selim Daku
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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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Cultivating a 'Habitus of Multiplicity' in Cross-Cultural Medicine: From Case Study Conflict to Many-Sided Conditions of Care Through Process and Jain Metaphysics. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
ABSTRACT Prompted by a nursing case study that occurred in 2022, this paper joins the perspectives of a nurse practitioner and cross‐cultural medical ethics professor to consider who can ask a question in the healthcare system, what questions can be heard, and how to develop pluralistic care models—beyond relativism and imperialism—that solicit more ...
Donaldson B.
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Culture of development in the middle of philosophy of culture and anthropology of development [PDF]

Taḥqīqāt-i Farhangī-i Īrān, 2021
Development, in a new purport, requires its own special culture; in a way that it arises from within a particular culture and the same is its backer and supporter.
R. Mahoozi
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