Cultural relativism and environmental ethics

dc.contributor.author	Willett, Lawrence T.
dc.date.accessioned	2008-12-07T03:12:26Z
dc.date.available	2008-12-07T03:12:26Z
dc.date.issued	1984
dc.identifier.citation	Willett, Lawrence T. (1984).Cultural relativism and environmental ethics. -- Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.16, no.2, p7-14.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0047-3928
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10057/1791
dc.description.abstract	In this paper the scientific objectivity of anthropologists is represented as a major hindrance to the development of an appropriate environmental ethic in Western culture. This is because anthropologists avoid the necessary feeling of responsibility which could allow a different attitude to develop. Moral neutrality is not the basis for overriding cultural relativism in matters of experimenting on humans; here I suggest it is not a valid basis for matters of environmental concerns to humans. Also, I urge fellow anthropologists to re-view our position in nature, and suggest ways we might contribute to a more appropriate scientific and ethical world view.	en
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dc.language	English (United States)	en
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	LAJ	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	v.16, no.2	en
dc.subject	Environmental ethics	en
dc.subject	Cultural relativism	en
dc.title	Cultural relativism and environmental ethics	en
dc.type	Article	en