Cultural relativism emerged in the early 20th century, primarily through the work of Franz Boas, an American anthropologist. Boas challenged the prevailing ethnocentric views of his time by ...

By misunderstanding and fearing relativism, Smith follows Lorenzini into wrongly curtailing the scope and significance of Foucault’s philosophy: “Lorenzini begins by pointing out that Foucault ...

A cultural relativist would say, for example, that polygamy is neither absolutely right or wrong, merely right in some cultures and wrong in others. Expressions of cultural relativism often stem from ...

These days, cultural relativism has a bad reputation in many quarters. It conjures images of a world where anything goes. According to this domino theory of norms, if people open themselves to the ...

For Herodotus, the recognition of cultural difference led him to declare, echoing the words of the Greek poet Pindar, that ‘custom is king of all.’ The acclaimed British philosopher Bernard Williams , ...

From the material, the researchers unearthed two types of truth relativism. One that comprises those who are convinced that what you personally feel to be true is true, that is to say, that truth is ...

Cultural Marxism, an offshoot of Marxist theory, allegedly claims that it focuses on the influence of culture, arts, and institutions in (re)shaping the status-quo of the society.