GS220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cultural Relativism, Sumo, Post-Structuralism
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If you"d have a diferent reacion to the middle class person and mrs. Name latour gives for the separaion of nature and society, science and poliics that has become the foundaion for modern society, including its knowledges and insituions. Emerged in the 17th century during a dispute between poliical theorist. Thomas hobbes (leviathan) and experimenter robert boyle over the status of the truth of experiments. Established who speaks for nature (scienists) and who speaks for humans (poliicians/later-social scienists) Cultural relaivism also based in nature/culture dualism. Can acknowledge diference at level of belief or even knowledge but not at level of reality. Buen vivir & rights of nature in ecuadorian and bolivian. Parial connecions: worlds connected but not fully commensurable (that is not a one to one relaionship with what exists in one and the other; not everything can be translated) 3 parts: 2 parts can be prepared in advance, 1 part based on readings and lectures from week 6-12 (no.
