THE “FUGITIVE TRUTH” OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM
THE “FUGITIVE TRUTH” OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Author(s): Matei CorinaSubject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: cultural relativism; ethnocentrism; otherness; multiculturalism, anti-anti-relativism; acculturation.
Summary/Abstract: Initially presenting a traditional point of view on the principle of cultural relativism, and then an updated perspective, as the philosopher of anthropology Clifford Geertz has conceived in his books, this article will finally try to emphasize the pragmatic difficulties which this principle still doesn’t succeed in solving, as I believe.
Journal: Cogito - Multidisciplinary research Journal
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 51-57
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
