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Single Idea 1911
[filed under theme 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism
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Full Idea
Even among practices on which all known cultures are agreed, disagreement about them may possibly exist amongst some of the nations which are unknown to us.
Gist of Idea
Even if all known nations agree on a practice, there may be unknown nations which disagree
Source
Sextus Empiricus (Outlines of Pyrrhonism [c.180], III.234)
Book Ref
Sextus Empiricus: 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Prometheus 1990], p.267
The
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[role of culture in shaping individual knowledge]:
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Thracians think tattooing adds to a girl's beauty, but elsewhere it is a punishment
[Anon (Diss)]
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1561
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Anything can be acceptable in some circumstances and unacceptable in others
[Anon (Diss)]
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1560
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Lydians prostitute their daughters to raise a dowery, but no Greek would marry such a girl
[Anon (Diss)]
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1910
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With us it is shameful for men to wear earrings, but among Syrians it is considered noble
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1911
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Even if all known nations agree on a practice, there may be unknown nations which disagree
[Sext.Empiricus]
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5303
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For the proletariate, law, morality and religion are just expressions of bourgeois interests
[Marx/Engels]
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2877
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Morality becomes a problem when we compare many moralities
[Nietzsche]
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3868
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To proclaim cultural relativism is to thereby rise above it
[Quine, by Newton-Smith]
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1490
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You would have to be very morally lazy to ignore criticisms of your own culture
[Nagel]
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10356
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Relativism can be seen as about the rationality of different cultural traditions
[MacIntyre, by Kusch]
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4934
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Cultures have a common core of colour naming, based on three axes of colour pairs
[Edelman/Tononi]
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10498
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Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions
[Ellen]
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