Abstract
According to cultural relativism any statement of any kind is,
basically, culture or language specific. We cannot transcend culture. We
cannot and should not evaluate the culture of other people in the light of our
own. We should not be judgmental in this regard. This will lead to
Ethnocentrism according to which one’s own culture is better than the
culture of others and according to which one’s own culture can be a criterion
for judging and evaluating the cultures of other people. Karl Popper and Ian
Jarvie are of the opinion that this will lead to the impossibility of
knowledge. If we accept the radical views of cultural and cognitive
relativism, the objectivity and universality of knowledge will be impossible.
Jarvie points out that without any judgment or criticism what will be the use
of Anthropology? Popper suggests that the cross cultural debate is not
impossible though difficult. New ideas cannot be produced only by
description but by criticism and evaluation
Muhammad Jawwad. (2019) DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION (A CRITICAL STUDY OF CULTURAL RELATIVISM WITH REFERENCE TO THE VIEWS OF KARL POPPER AND IAN JARVIE), Al-Hikmat: A Journal of Philosophy, Volume 39, Issue 1.
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