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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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Peter Winch on Cultural Relativism - Dictionary of Arguments
Habermas III 102 Cultural relativism/Relativism/Cultures/Rationality/Winch/Habermas: Winch Thesis (according to Habermas): every linguistically articulated world view and every cultural form of life is inhabitated by an incomparable concept of rationality. >Worldviews, >Rationality, >Comparisons, >Comparability, >Concepts, >Culture, >Cultural tradition. HabermasVsWinch: his arguments are not strong enough to consolidate this thesis, but they are strong enough to stand out against an uncritical self-interpretation of modernity, which is fixated on recognition and availability of outer nature, in contrast to the claim of universality justified in principle for that rationality which is expressed in modern understanding of the world. >Modernism, >Universalism._____________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. |
Winch I Peter Winch The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy 2012 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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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-29