PHI 4311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Essentialism, Cultural Relativism, Practical Reason
6 Nov 2014
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Nussbaum human functioning and social justice: in defense of aristotelian. Context united nations conference on development economics: dominant view: antiessentialism: we should respect other cultures and imposing any forms of. Amin objective: to counter cultural relativisim by establishing a theory of justice founded on. Universal, which allows it to become a global standard for justice. Possibility for morality by allowing compassion and respect. Exclude certain groups from the definition of what it means to be human. Alternative to essentialism (anti-essentialism) form of extreme relativism. While aes believe they are defending the interest of minorities, by claiming that the only way to establish evaluative norms is through power, they are potentially denying the disadvantaged any way to assert their point of view. Essentialism however can allow a moral high ground to justify a policy over another, it simply has to be adjusted to the three critiques presented against it. Basic human function the ideal is that once we identify a group(214)
