FYSM 1209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Smallpox Vaccine, Eurocentrism, Ethnocentrism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: First-Year Seminars
• Course: FYSM 1209
• Professor: Christine Koggel

Document Summary

Nussbaum- we can still talk about human diversity and equal rights while rejecting that humans are interchangeable. Context is relevant: about resources, government and responsibility for achieving a threshold of what it means to live a good life, nussbaum is introducing new concepts . Ethnocentrism o o judging others, cultures, people, believes by one"s own standards. Nussbaum starts her attack on relativism (extreme version)there are no standards by which to judge other cultures, values, beliefs, practices. Smallpox vaccine, they pray to this goddess. Mr says that there is a god"s eye point of view something that contains the truth apart from human interpretation. We don"t have this point of view so we can"t make judgements. Nussbaum- yes we don"t have this point of view but we don"t need it. Nussbaum- we don"t have access to this truth and that"s okay. We have human interpretation, human life and human history.