Friday, January 3, 2014

The Challenge of Cultural Relativism

The issue from the article is whether or not the Cultural Differences Argument is sound logic or not. For instance just because the people of Okonkwo's village found it acceptable to have multiple wives and the white did not, marriage, monogamous or otherwise, is not objectively right or objectively wrong. It is nearly a matte of opinion. Or perhaps that some cultures deem is acceptable to eat bugs and others do not makes the consumption of bugs neither right or wrong, merely a matter of opinion.  I personally do not agree with the Cultural Differences Argument because just because opinions differ doesn't mean that they both can be correct depending on cultural differences. Such as in the article, just because some one believes the earth to be flat and someone believes it to be flat based on their cultures, doesn't mean that the geography of the earth is something that it is not.

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