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Assessing the Irrelevance of Relativism in African Philosophy in Contemporary Africa [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological StudiesThe paper focuses on current research that has suggested that Africa is experiencing a moral decline, which has been a fact for several years. The cultural sense of African societies has also been called into doubt in the twentieth century, with many ...
Phemelo Olifile Marumo
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The Incoherence of Moral Relativism [PDF]
, 2020 : This paper is a response to Park Seungbae’s article, “Defence of Cultural Relativism”. Some of the typical criticisms of moral relativism are the following: moral relativism is erroneously committed to the principle of tolerance, which is a universal ...
Alvaro, Carlo
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臺灣教育社會學研究, 2023 本文整理三位文化人類學家對教育的觀點。C. Geertz認為教育即文化限 縮，J. Henry認為教育即文化綑綁，G. D. Spindler則認為教育即文化干預、 文化壓縮，三者皆強調文化依賴教育擔負傳遞的功能，卻同時框限教育的內涵與運作。延伸討論的結果指出，教育的框限並非絕對的，教育不會被全然的文化所決定，在特定文化範圍內仍允許學校實施的彈性與個人抉擇的自由，也容許相對程度的創造；從文化相對論推論出教育的相對論，教育皆有其文化框限，各有其優缺點；每種教育模式都只是適應文化環境的文化選擇 ...
黃鴻文 Horng-Wen Huang +1 more
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The relativistic attitude in development: reflections on the implementation of the Ethiopian multinational Constitution [PDF]
, 2019 L’approccio allo sviluppo che considera la crescita economica come unico obiettivo può produrre degli effetti deleteri sui gruppi marginalizzati. Lo sviluppismo adottato in Etiopia dal 1991 illustra questo punto con riferimento ai contadini, ai popoli ...
Bassi, Marco
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Culturalism: From idea to unconscious presupposition [PDF]
Sociologija, 2010 The authors argue that the ideas found in the harder versions of multiculturalism have already been supported by the mid-20th century social-cultural anthropology - both in the scholarly works and in the political activism of its proponents. This form
Eriksen Jens-Martin, Stjernfelt Frederik
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Respect for cultural diversity and the empirical turn in bioethics: a plea for caution [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2012 In the last two decades, there have been numerous calls for a culturally sensitive bioethics. At the same time, bioethicists have become increasingly involved in empirical research, which is a sign of dissatisfaction with the analytic methods of ...
Karori Mbugua
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Revista Videre, 2020 Indigenous children and adolescents are exploited in work activities, however, this rights violation is often supported by a cultural diversity discussion that ends up masking and naturalizing it. The general goal of the work is to understand the context
André Viana Custódio +1 more
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Understanding Cultural Relativism: A critical Appraisal of the Theory
, 2017 The aim of this review article is to reveal the cons and pros of ethical relativism, especially conventionalism. This article is written with the intention of showing some of the practical upshots of conventionalism without totally denying some of its ...
Yohannes Eshetu
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Some thoughts on practising physiotherapy in a multi-cultural country
South African Journal of Physiotherapy, 2004 Physiotherapists in South Africa are often confronted with ethical issues, which arise from the multi-cultural nature of the society. This paper discusses the ethical theory of cultural relativism in an attempt to highlight the complexities of making ...
J. Jelsma
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