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Summary Of: Cultural relativismepistemological claims that led to the development of cultural relativism have their origins in the German... Cultural relativism was in part a response to Western ethnocentrism... The principle of cultural relativism thus forced anthropologists to develop innovative methods and heuristic strategies... cultural relativism is an attitude that is of fundamental methodological importance... problem of ethnocentrism demands that the scientist adopt cultural relativism as a method... s claims to universality implies that cultural relativism is a tool not only in cultural understanding... The critical function of cultural relativism is widely understood... Although Cook is misconstruing cultural relativism to be identical to... The most famous use of cultural relativism as a means of cultural critique is... when the principle of cultural relativism was popularized after World War II... people misinterpreted cultural relativism to mean that all cultures are both separate and equal... The transformation of cultural relativism as a heuristic tool into the doctrine of moral relativism occurred in the context of... that any attempt to apply the principle of cultural relativism to moral problems would only end in contradiction... on cultural relativism and human rights for examples of this debate... suggests that the use of cultural relativism in debates of rights and morals is not substantive but procedural... cultural relativism is a doctrine that provides... the doctrine of cultural relativism as a basis for moral relativism was anathema... cultural relativism came under attack... Cultural relativism is a purely intellectual attitude... pointed out that the conservative critics of cultural relativism did not really understand... the various critics and proponents of cultural relativism were talking past one another... defense of cultural relativism as a concern which should motivate various inquiries... Cultural Relativism as an Ethnocentric Notion... Cultural Relativism and Environmental Ethics...Encyclodia Page On: Cultural relativism |
