Relativism

“But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them, but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same desires in your own heart” (271). In Orson Scott Card’s, Speaker for the Dead, we are met yet again with Ender Wiggin, on a foreign planet, with foreign people, a new foreign alien species, and one he has carried with…

(iii) Dialogical Multiculturalism: This actually is different from the former two as it represents the practical level rather than the policy areas. This was primarily developed by Parekh (2000) who suggested “multiculturalism explains well how the cultural communities should relate to one another. It also prioritized that only the norms and values of different cultures within a given context cannot bring about peace and solidarity rather by creating an open and equal dialogue between the…

Bilingualism isn’t something that people should be making others have or taking away from others, people should choose to have or not have it. Of course many people have different ideas of what Bilingualism is. For Espada, he believes that people should not be made to be bilingual, or to lose their own culture. For Rodriguez, on the other hand, he believes that it is a lot more convenient to become bilingual with a public language like English. Even if somebody looses their private languages…

Anthropology is the study of what makes us human and helps us further understand each other in a way for us to continue to coexist in the world. American anthropology is generally divided into four main sub fields that each serve an important purpose. They have different skills involved but have some similarities to them. Anthropologists take a far-reaching approach to comprehending the many altered aspects of the human experience, which we call holism. Through archaeologic anthropology, they…

Have you ever done something that went against your values, harmed someone, or did something that just was wrong? Did you think you were still a moral person after your actions? Most people will probably answer yes to both of the questions. When an individual breaks society’s moral codes they can still think of their selves as moral members of society by a theory called techniques of neutralization. When one breaks the moral code, techniques of neutralization provide rationales to justify why…

Ethnocentrism is judging another culture based upon the values and standards set in one's own culture. Though we may choose to deny it all we want, all of us are ethnocentric in some way shape or form, minus the handful of people who are in fact not ethnocentric. It is incredible how this planet is consists of so many different people belonging to different races or ethnicities. Color, language, culture, appearance, values are all factors that are fed upon by ethnocentric cultures or…

Even though Harman provides a plethora of moral diversity examples to support his defense on moral relativism, a mistake already persists in his claim for defending it. Harman claims that all moral right and wrong are always relative to a choice of moral framework. This claim proposes an absolute moral standard. It is illogical for one to propose a relativist’s claim by using an absolute moral standard. Therefore, the relativist’s claim is illogical. To add on to this argument for endorsing an…

Do the Right Thing is a film that challenges the concept of morality. As the name suggests, many of the characters in it struggle to figure out what the right thing is. The film leaves it as ambiguous to what the right thing is. And because there were so many different people trying to figure out what it meant to do the right thing, everyone arrived at different conclusions to what it is. The answer to how Mookie knows what the right thing is is that he really does not know. Throughout the film,…

Human beings are different than other living creatures on Earth not only because of intelligence, but also different values of humanity. Every individual of mankind is independent and unique due to their different values and beliefs. A person’s values are an important component that makes him who he is today. Different Values are also a significant guideline when an individual has to make a choice on a life event. Amazingly, a person can have two different values that can come into conflict. As…

Ruth Benedict first seeks to demonstrate that perceptions of morality vary between cultures. Only providing one or two examples would evidently be insufficient so we are deluged with many. She dwells on this point, but it is easy enough to grant. However, after wearing us down with these examples, she unexpectedly jumps directly to her conclusion of moral relativity. Unless I am perceiving it incorrectly—which is entirely possible—this is the gist of her argument: cultures have differing views…