... applies it eventually to Marxism. He investigates how societies create and perpetuate structures of reality (sociology of knowledge). The sociology of knowledge investigates human actions, habits, institutions, social roles and controls, legitimizations and reifications (dehumanization of the human products) (Berger and Luckmann 1967:89). General Semantics teaches us that language is not reality (Map is ... to judge what in our moral tradition is worth preserving, what requires modification, and what should be left behind. Utilizing all the available resources from our tradition, histo...

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... ; Paul Bloom holds a position that morality has its roots in human biology and it is shaped by social environment without the influence of any supernatural intervention. Bloom suggests that the growing body of scientific knowledge in the field of evolutionary biology and anthropology confirms that traits necessary for the forming human morality are essential for survival and reproduction of biological species ... that can be attributed to the transcendent power. He acknowledges the complex nature of human morality and suggests that altruistic behavior that doesn't favor natural selection...

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... validated? What is science? Metaphysics deals with the nature of reality. Philosophers subdivided it into three main divisions: ontology, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of religion. Axiology deals with value theory. It is divided into ethics, social and political philosophy and aesthetics. Ethics is the discipline that attempts to establish rational grounds for right conduct. Statements can be ... divided into two parts descriptive and normative. Descriptive statements assert a fact without evaluation. Normative statements make value judgments. Social and political philosophy ...

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... validated? What is science? Metaphysics deals with the nature of reality. Philosophers subdivided it into three main divisions: ontology, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of religion. Axiology deals with value theory. It is divided into ethics, social and political philosophy and aesthetics. Ethics is the discipline that attempts to establish rational grounds for right conduct. Statements can be ... divided into two parts descriptive and normative. Descriptive statements assert a fact without evaluation. Normative statements make value judgments. Social and political philosophy ...

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... by taking time to take the perspective of another culture before passing judgement. It is mainly a side effect of a lack of knowledge. Studying cultural realism is "difficult [in] that whereas anthropology and sociology are empirical sciences, fields of study based on observations and facts, ethics is a normative discipline, based on judgments and moral values [but] a scientist can only predict a certain outcome ... the environment surrounding it. Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism are two polar opposites ways of viewing the world and its ethics. There is no right way to approach the...

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... is more and more becoming exposed to the diversity of different cultures, peoples, institutions and schools of thought. It was the exposition of this myriad of factors via advances in anthropology which first led to the growth of relativism. However, it is the interaction of these and other factors that poses some tough questions to the fundamental principals of relativism as ... ? What percent of the population needs to believe in their doctrines for them to be the correct moral authority? Ginsberg makes an excellent point in his Essays in Sociiology and Social Psychology. "Ethical Rela...

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