Ep 108 – Cultural Relativism Can Bite Me

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2014

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Vernon provides a listener response to Chelsea Shields Strayer’s recent Placebo Effect episodes and sets the stage — excuse me, constructs a “springboard” — for a future panel discussion on the value (or not) of Cultural Relativism. To listen to the Reasonable Doubts episode Matthew references, follow the link here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/reasonabledoubts/2014/08/27/episode-131-witch-hunt-with-guest-leo-igwe/

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0:00.0	First I just wanted to define placebo.
0:07.0	Percivo.
0:11.0	Everyone thinks they know what it is, but people often don't.
0:15.0	Well done.
0:16.0	My name is Matthew Vernon and I'm some guy.
0:21.0	My name is Matthew Vernon and I'm some guy that likes to listen to podcasts.
0:27.0	Out's death. Seven o'clock and I want to round, want and go rant about them on Facebook.
0:37.0	My sister looks cute and I'm raises and moves.
0:42.0	Well, I think all Westerners have this problem, right?
0:46.0	Brutality.
0:47.0	This road is paved with tricksters and fools. See, I'm also a physician and some of the points discussed were not totally congruent with the way I view medicine.
1:00.0	Finish her! A handful of frieze that I hear, huh?
1:04.0	We don't believe in witchcraft.
1:07.0	We don't believe in witches.
1:08.0	Therefore, when we have come to a society that believes in that, we just think it's stupid.
1:14.1	Impressive.
1:16.1	Cultural moral relativity.
1:18.4	I find the concept as a workable way of viewing the world completely foreign.
1:23.7	And I find I can't help but reject it.
1:25.8	Ex.
1:27.7	And the postmodern kind of view is that's quite
1:31.2	ethnocentric.
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