Concept
Cultural relativism
Overview
principle that cultures should be understood and evaluated on their own terms and not by universal or outsider standards
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Philosophers who discussed Cultural relativism
Related ideas
- Ethnicity
- Self-evidence
- Franz Boas
- Pyrrhonism
- Herodotus
- Indonesia
- Immanuel Kant
- Iran
- Ethnography
- John Dewey
- Karl Pearson
- Cremation
- Aenesidemus
- Sextus Empiricus
- Sociology
- Geography
- Culture
- Myanmar
- University of Chicago Press
- Vietnam
- Native Americans in the United States
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Psychology
- Physics
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Aspirated consonant
- Colombia
- Cremation
- Edward Sapir
- Ethnicity
- Ethnography
- Franz Boas
- Greeks
- Indonesia
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Linguistic relativity
- Mexico
- Moral absolutism
- Native Americans in the United States
- Phoneme
- Ruth Benedict
- Self-evidence
- The Journal of Philosophy
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Alain LeRoy Locke
- George E. Marcus
- Melville J. Herskovits
- Robert Lowie