CULTURAL RELATIVISM

Our professor gave us homework to be read about Cultural Relativism. Cultural relativism is about the distinctions of the culture itself. In my opinion, we people do have different ways to perceive things, or the way we views life either through our cultural values or how we believe  such a thing.

Like what had been said in the topic of the Free Radical, “Cultural relativism is the mistaken idea that there are no objectives standards by which our society can be judged because each culture is entitled to its own beliefs and accepted practices.” Yes I agree with it, why? Because every country or every people has its own culture or own standards or even laws. People have its standards from which we accepted and believe in, we have laws that we need to take notes. Like in schools/ universities they do have different cultures. They have different rules that were implemented. Even the bible has the commandments that had been following by the Catholics.

“He argued that because all of our knowledge comes from experience, we couldn't have any knowledge of causality because we do not experience causality.” I think it’s somewhat confusing, because you gain and learn from experiences. For example in school how a student would gain knowledge through the instructors’ way of teaching, and we learned from them, from their experiences through their examples.  Somehow we really learn from others experiences, we gained knowledge we are learning. 

Knowing what is right from wrong, truth from reality is another argument that had been argument on this topic. I think that we have all minds which set right from wrong; it has its own consciousness to know right from wrong. According to “Kant contended that reality (as far as we can know it) depends on the cognitive functioning of the human mind in total. Society sets the norms of truth and falsity and right and wrong. This is the essence of Kant’s social primacy of consciousness theory in metaphysics. Man’s ideas are essentially a collective delusion from which no person has the power to escape.”