3) Tom Bonkenburg – He is more of a geocentric manager. Even though he seems surprised at the Russian’s unhappy look at first, he soon understood the Russian culture when his Russian counterpart sent him the thank you email, and accepted that as part of the Russian work culture. He also mentioned about “He was working as hard to impress me as I was to impress him” shows he accepts the different cultures George Ajjan – He is more of an ethnocentric manager. He chose to use his more direct tone when
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It is important to consider all objective facts when debating moral topics. Cultural Relativism and Subjectivism make it seem like people have different ideas of what is morally right and wrong. The idea that morals vary throughout the world stems from the observations of different cultural practices and personal circumstance. All these differences that have been observed has created a theory that seems to miss some of the larger picture facts of cultures and personal circumstance. Missing these
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THE CHALLENGE OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM by JAMES RACHELS “Morality differs in every society, and is a convenient term for socially approved habits.” Ruth Benedict, Patterns of Culture (1934) 2.1 How Different Cultures Have Different Moral Codes Darius, a king of ancient Persia, was intrigued by the variety of cultures he encountered in his travels. He had found, for example, that the Callatians (a tribe of Indians) customarily ate the bodies of their dead fathers. The Greeks, of course, did not do that—the
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to help support cultural relativism’s thesis that’s explains that that what is morally right can only be determined by your culture. Cultural relativism is not an objective theory of morality. If the theory was an objective theory then Rachels would feel as though we would be able to settle our moral disagreements. The arguments that a cultural relativism uses to supports their views are the fact that cultures do have different moral codes. For example in America they believe that a man should only
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September 25th, 2017 Brandon Colle World Philosophy II, Fall 2017 IAEQ #1: Midgley’s “Trying Out One’s New Sword” Mary Midgley bailiwick moral isolationism, the view of an anthropologist and others suggest that we cannot criticize cultures that we do not know or understand. Midgley argues that moral logical thinking, it falsely assumes that cultures are separate and unmixed, whereas most are in fact formed out many influence. Mary Midgley says that the major power of moral sound judgment is in fact
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Case Assignments (1) Uganda on Page 79 1. Uganda has had negative experiences with powerful leaders starting with IA who committed mass murder. Also, there has been a recent influx of immigrants settling in Uganda after fleeing from bloodshed in Rwanda, Zaire, and the Sudan. The government supports nepotism and is concerned to be one of the most corrupt countries in the world. There are few government regulations on the conduct of business which creates a favorable climate for doing business
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Philosophy 484 Professor Neiman 3/22/12 “Selling Starbucks in the Forbidden City” Ever since the Starbucks retail outlet has opened in the “Forbidden City” of Beijing, China, there has been a huge controversy over whether this store deserves to be in this sacred area of China’s history. I believe that Starbucks has a moral obligation to operate a retail store in the “Forbidden City.” The first objection from some Chinese citizens is that Starbucks is highly considered an American brand
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“Is morality relative or are there objective moral truths?” Is Morality Subjective or Objective? Every day, we make decisions that affect our lives and others. Sometimes, those decisions are bigger than other times. Those decisions are sometimes made because the choice is to do something right or wrong. We say that a moral person will make the right decision and the immoral person will make the wrong decision. An example of this is that if I was raised in a culture that says killing is wrong
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Tiffany Nelson Sociology Unit #3 08/08/09 Along with a numerous number of countries come a vast number of cultural differences, values, norms, and traditions. With the world consisting of many different people and cultures the expectance of negative aspects, assumptions, or generalizations is not uncommon and can be summed up in the concept of ethnocentrism. Ethnocentrism is defined as the tendency to believe that one’s own race or ethnic group is the most important and that some or all aspects
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Philosophy 101 Cultural relativism believes that every culture has its own value and worthy in their own right. No one has a right to judge or say about how this or that culture is worthless just because they do something opposite of what they believe and respect. What proves and right do you have to say that doing this is moral or immoral. Just like James Rachel’s brief statement “Different cultures have different moral codes.”(p. 175). Some people may disagree about something, and some may agree
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