[PDF] Cultural Relativism Perspectives In Cultural Pluralism eBook

Author : Chandana Chakrabarti
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1443881805

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This book explores three central concepts, namely justice and human rights, ethics and values, and intercultural learning. These are important to everyone in a multicultural society and of special interest to students and scholars of philosophy, cultural studies, religious studies, and other related disciplines. In this volume, a pluralistic approach is adopted to examine ethical and value questions. Accordingly, readers will learn much from the interaction between Western and Eastern methods of ethical inquiry. The impetus for this collection of essays is the notion that cultural diversity represents a source of exchange, innovation and creativity. Consequently, cultural diversity is as critical for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. Furthermore, cultural diversity is a property of the entire community, just as biodiversity is a property of the entire ecosystem. Therefore, understanding and learning from cultural pluralism is as central to social and cultural stewardship as protection and restoration are to biological diversity. Within the pages of Perspectives on Culture, Values, and Justice readers will experience a growth in perspective and a greater understanding of issues of culture, value, and justice. A major starting point for these contemplations is that culture and values are integral to our identity and the essence of who we are and what we do.

Author : David B Wong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199724849

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In this book, David B. Wong defends an ambitious and important new version of moral relativism. He does not espouse the type of relativism that says anything goes, but he does start with a relativist stance against alternative theories such that there need not be only one universal truth. Wong proposes that there can be a plurality of true moralities existing across different traditions and cultures, all with one core human question as to how we can all live together.

Author : Horace Meyer Kallen
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1512817201

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Alexander Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1108682626

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This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and mathematics of the Old World in antiquity. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient science currently available. Together, they reveal the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in the study of nature in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and India. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the ancient world, contributors consider scientific, medical and mathematical learning in the cultures associated with the ancient world.

Author : X. Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2006-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230511589

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Is it possible, given culturally incongruent perspectives, to validate any common standards of behaviour? Is cultural relativity be a problem when cultures are porous? Can we implement human rights without incorporating the idea into the fabric of culture? This book addresses such questions with an inventive and original understanding of culture.

Author : Jane K. Cowan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521797351

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Part I: Setting universal rights

Author : James Kellenberger
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271039411

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This book aims to clarify the debate between moral relativists and moral absolutists by showing what is right and what is wrong about each of these positions, by revealing how the phenomenon of moral diversity is connected with moral relativism, and by arguing for the importance of relationships between persons as key to reaching a satisfactory understanding of the issues involved in the debate.