Philosophy PHIL 1320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Relativism, Cultural Relativism, Cultural Universal
15 Nov 2017
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> each culture is self-contained, autonomous, separate but equal (rosaldo 2015) >cultures are incommensurable: there is no scale, going from excellent to terrible, of human cultures. > to replace relativism, kluckhohn proposed a set of ethical and cultural universals that, to my ear, are surprisingly void of content. He [discussed the ] example [of] two native american groups: the kwakiutl of the. Northwest coast, whose culture encourages exhibitionism and the zuni of the southwest, who by contrast prize restrant. These are really different ways of giving meaning to one"s life to kluckhohn, this vast difference revealed a universal-prizing the norms of one"s culture (rosaldo 2015; emphasis added). >what is meant by a universal in this passage. >you should study and learn from other cultures, and participating in a different form of life does not make someone deranged or evil. >doing so can expand the discussion of concepts we think are important (rosaldo 2015)
