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Cultural relativism is a type of superficially open-minded behaviour. Every statement is regarded as an opinion and therefore as right, no matter how opposing or contradictory the different “opinions” may be.
relativism and support cultural absolutism? Can one culture be more correct than another? Cultural relativists and absolutists offer opposing answers to these questions. This paper criticizes cultural absolutism and defends cultural relativism. This paper unpacks the debate between cultural relativists and absolutists as follows.
The distinguishing features of absolutism is its pretension to rise above reality, to break out of the limitation of history, to transcend the community and the very foundation of political organisation, that is, human beings living together in a group. Absolutism was by definition an abstraction.
According to Berry, Poortinga, Segall, and Dasen (1992), cultural absolutism is the idea that psychological phenomena, such as intelligence and honesty, do not differ from culture to culture: They are the same among cultures.
12 Νοε 2021 · This idea of holding all people accountable to the same moral standards is known as the concept of absolutism and is one of the main theories of morality in philosophical ethics. Its contrasting viewpoint, cultural relativism, argues that the morality of a person’s actions and practices should be judged to the standard of that person’s ...
