Ethical Egoism We will be discussing the strengths and weaknesses of ethical egoism, but before we begin we first must understand what ethical egoism is and what is involved. Ethical egoism is the normative ethical position that moral agents ought to do what is in their own self-interest. It differs from psychological egoism, which claims that people can only act in their self-interest. Ethical egoism also differs from rational egoism, which holds that it is rational to act in one's self-interest
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in Rome…’. How can you condemn an action that is a societal norm? But this then raises the issue of the looking glass turning the other direction; if we cannot judge another culture, can that culture judge us? By embarking down this path of moral relativism we head towards a destination that is inherently immoral because there are no absolutes but instead only situations and contexts in which things are moral and others where they are not. Many would argue that each society is entitled to their own
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Discussion: Cultural Relativism A. Discuss what you see as the strengths and weaknesses of each of these three kinds of relativism Moral Stance-The strengths is the moral distance created allows the anthropologists to have a clearer view of social behavior that might be unacceptable such as cannibalism. The weaknesses would be our own personal views. Methodological Strategy-The strengths is that an anthropologist studies a culture in its own terms. The weaknesses are cultural relativism results in
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convincing and reasonable, but from my perspective, Google is absolutely a utilitarian who only cares about their benefits more than cost. In addition, Google managers adopted the straw man approaches, including the Friedman doctrine, cultural relativism, naive immorality, and righteous moralist as well. As mentioned previously, Google’s objective is to allow people to access all of the information in the world. However, in order to enter China market, Google has to follow Chinese regulations, which
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Ethnocentrism It is always troublesome not to understand another culture, especially, in New York City where we live in a society that is rapidly changing. The City has increasingly brought people of various cultures, to interact closer with each other. This interaction can be either positive or negative depending on the level of sensitivity and respect people have for other culture groups. These two types of behaviors are related to two important concepts known as ethnocentrism and
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NO_Youth_are_here_partner form "NO , Youth are here." Isparta (Turkey) Youth exchanges 8 - 14 September, 2014 INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT Project Type: Youth Exchange;activities focusing on the to restore Isparta carpet and youth unemployment problems. Theme: Forgetten culture Participants: 6 young persons Age: 18-24 Objectives: In our project which will be held for 7 days with 36 young people form different countries, religions, languages, races and cultures come together with
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language conditions thought and that language and thought is bound up with the individual culture of the given community would mean that translation is impossible. We cannot translate one's thought which is affected by and stated in language specific for a certain community to another different language because the system of thought in the two languages (cultures) must be different. Each language is unique. If it influences the thought and, therefore, the culture, it would mean that ultimate translation
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Ethnocentrism is bias attitude that someone believes that their own cultures is better than the others, and they do not accept in other cultures. People expect other persons to behave or act like they do while other also expect the same thing. So, it can lead to misunderstanding between people who have different cultures and backgrounds. People always think that their culture is the best in the world, hence this is why ethnocentrism happens in the society. It is very bad to judge other by first looking
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Wade Davis defines the ethnosphere as a cultural web of life which contains all thoughts, dreams, myths, ideas, and inspirations. Davis talks about the ethnosphere as something that is fueled by human imagination as well as humanity’s great legacy. The ethnosphere represents all that humanity is and all that humanity can be as a whole. Ethnocentrism is the idea that one’s own culture is the main standard by which other cultures may be measured. People make comparisons between cultures and judge other
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ETHNOCENTRISM Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behaviour, customs, and religion. The term ethnocentrism was coined by William G. Sumner, upon observing
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