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Cultural relativism and philosophy : North and Latin American perspectives / edited by Marcelo Dascal.

Contributor(s): Dascal, Marcelo
Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophy of history and culture: v. 7.Publisher: Leiden, the Netherlands ; New York : Brill, 1991Description: xii, 316 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004094334Subject(s): Cultural relativism -- Philosophy | Ethnocentrism -- Latin America | Ethnocentrism -- North AmericaDDC classification: 306 LOC classification: GN345.5 | .C85 1991Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Relativism and the Lebenswelt / Joseph Margolis -- Contradictions and paradigms: a paraconsistent approach / Lorenzo Peña -- Conceptual relativism and philosophy in the Americas / León Olivé -- Six dogmas of relativism / Lenn E. Goodman -- Time and world in Mayan and Nahuatl thought / Mercedes de la Garza -- Trique's grammatico-lexical characteristics: a worldview? / Robert E. Longacre -- Historicism and universalism in philosophy / Francisco Miró Quesada -- The limits of cultural relativism: metaphysics in Latin America / Mauricio Beuchot -- Evolution and the naked truth / Gonzalo Munévar -- Cultural relativism and critical naturalism / Harvey B. Sarles -- Aesthetics and ethnocentrism / David Sobrevilla -- Crossing cultures: two universalisms and two relativisms / Michael Krausz -- Understanding conflicts between north and south / Hugh Lacey -- Cross-cultural translation: problems and possibilities / Eugene J. Meehan -- The ecology of cultural space / Marcelo Dascal.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Relativism and the Lebenswelt / Joseph Margolis -- Contradictions and paradigms: a paraconsistent approach / Lorenzo Peña -- Conceptual relativism and philosophy in the Americas / León Olivé -- Six dogmas of relativism / Lenn E. Goodman -- Time and world in Mayan and Nahuatl thought / Mercedes de la Garza -- Trique's grammatico-lexical characteristics: a worldview? / Robert E. Longacre -- Historicism and universalism in philosophy / Francisco Miró Quesada -- The limits of cultural relativism: metaphysics in Latin America / Mauricio Beuchot -- Evolution and the naked truth / Gonzalo Munévar -- Cultural relativism and critical naturalism / Harvey B. Sarles -- Aesthetics and ethnocentrism / David Sobrevilla -- Crossing cultures: two universalisms and two relativisms / Michael Krausz -- Understanding conflicts between north and south / Hugh Lacey -- Cross-cultural translation: problems and possibilities / Eugene J. Meehan -- The ecology of cultural space / Marcelo Dascal.

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