Political Science 3388E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ethnocentrism, Female Reproductive System, Female Genital Mutilation
17 Dec 2017
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Cultural relativism: when outside judgment of a practice is different from the inside judgment, a cultural relativist argument gives priority to the inside judgment. Sebei, uganda: circumcision of sabiny girls: circumcision of both girls and boys is important in this community. Right of passage = socially desired: objections from universal human rights, cultural relativist would say human rights doesn"t apply. Donnelly"s observations sliding scale of relativism: radical cultural relativism only source is their culture, strong cultural relativism lean towards culture; principle source of validity is culture. Thick morality would trump thin: weak cultural relativism/strong universalism. Comprehensive set of self evident rights but with limited local variation. Broad agreements on thin morality, thick morality exists. Thin morality trumps thick: radical universalism only source for valid claims is universal morality. = 1st ring of a bulls eye; donnelly cautions that not all interpretations are not equal, thick morality should always be checked by thin morality: implementation outer ring object of the right,
