CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND THE CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES
CULTURAL RELATIVISM AND THE CONFLICT OF PRINCIPLES

Summary/Abstract: Considering the impact that cultural relativism is supposed to have in the future on many communities evolving under the apparently new form of acculturation – that is, globalization – my intention in this paper is to focus on its possible social and ideological consequences. It is well known that, as a research methodological principle, cultural relativism emerged from field anthropological studies, in times when the discipline called cultural anthropology was turning into a social science. After that, in many other (more or less) theoretical contexts we were assisting the development of a real relativism culture. Nowadays, things seem to reveal a different trend, maybe a conservative one, and that is a relevant phenomenon to be philosophically analyzed and debated, given its significant implications even on the shape of our future civilization.

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