What is culture? This essay is written to identify and discuss three theories regarding to culture. The three theories that will be discussed are absolutism, relativism and soft relativism. In order to discuss these theories regarding culture is to first, look at the definition of culture. There is more than one definition of culture in regards of society; the main definition is “the ideas, customs, and special behaviour of a particular people or society.” (Oxford Dictionary, n.d.) The origin of
meanings get contested within particular discourses. Therefore, it is rather unfortunate to see that even the most theoretically oriented ecocritics, like Dana Phillips, mistake postmodernism with extreme relativist positions. When he boldly but wrongly claims that "postmodernists are the kind of relativists" (The Truth 33), he repeats the common misunderstandings of postmodern thought. This is not too surprising because for many critics postmodernism represents a disruption of reality, a pure textualist
Using two articles “On the Origin of Good and Evil” by Richard Taylor and “Why Morality Is Not Relative” by James Rachels from the book Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature, authors Louis P. Pojman and Lewis Vaughn, this essay will first try to identify what each of the two articles says about the nature of good and evil, and the relativity of morality. The main points of scholars Taylor and Rachels are that good and evil happens naturally in us, and we should not judge another