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| Cultural relativism: Cultural relativism is the view that all cultures are equally valid and that no culture should be judged by the standards of another culture. It is based on the idea that there is no universal standard of right and wrong. See also Fundamental rights, Human rights, Objectivity._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Max Weber on Cultural Relativism - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas III 258 Cultural Relativism/Weber/WeberVsRelativism/Habermas: When Max Weber speaks of "last points of view" under which life can be rationalized, he does not always mean the cultural values, the contents that develop within a sphere of life in historical configurations, but sometimes also those abstract ideas that are decisive for the autonomy of a value sphere as such: such ideas are truth and success for the cognitive value sphere; justice and generally normative correctness for the moral-practical value sphere, beauty, authenticity, truthfulness for the expressive value sphere. >Value spheres, >Truth, >Success, >Justice, >Rightness, >Norms, >Beauty, >Authenticity, >Truthfulness, >Interest, >Rationalization. Habermas: these ideas (or aspects of validity) must not be confused with the special contents of individual value spheres. >Ideas, >Content. According to Weber, cultural value spheres are important for the development of modern societies because they control the differentiation of social subsystems or spheres of life.(1) Habermas III 259 Habermas: We must not put the aspects of validity on a par with any value content, with historically changing particular value patterns. >Values, >Culture, >Cultural tradition, >Tradition, >History, >Relativism, cf. >Progress. 1.M.Weber, Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie, Bd. I Tübingen, 1963, S. 259._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Weber I M. Weber The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - engl. trnsl. 1930 German Edition: Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus München 2013 Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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