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The Enculturation Argument as a Contribution to the Cherishing of Tolerance

Predrag Režan ; Osnovna škola »Obrovac«, Obrovac, Hrvatska

Sažetak

Enculturation in sociology signifies the inclusion of a person, most often a child, into the patterns of a culture it is developed and grows up in. Thus, we can say that the moral patterns that person acquired are the product of this culture. Hence, it is obvious that there is no universal morality, but that it is different from one culture to another. The thesis of enculturation fits into the discourse about moral relativism, which claims that moral postulates are only true relative to a standard or framework, and that even this standard is not exclusively morally justified. So the following questions arise: can we even announce that the moral values of a culture are amoral; are there limits to which a morality of a culture is acceptable, and where those limits stop; does the attitude about the acceptance of a culture with different moral values helps cherishing of tolerance and the reduction of tensions between people? In this discussion the results of research by anthropologists who met with cultures unlike their own in their travel around the world, are unavoidable.

Ključne riječi

enculturation; cultural diversity; pluralismof moral concepts; tolerance; Kant’s Challenge; autonomy; heteronomy

Hrčak ID:

23149

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/23149

Datum izdavanja:

7.4.2008.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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