ETHICAL RELATIVISM, SOCIO‐ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN DIGNITY

Abstract

Introduction Relativism of all shades and kinds is in fashion. For some decades, it has been trying to enter the very bastion of the academic heartland by questioning the prevailing cognitive realism in the philosophy of science (Kuhn, Feyerabend). More recently a somewhat different and stronger version of relativism has made some extraordinary advances in literary criticism (the movement of “deconstruction”) and spawned some controversy in the field of law (critical legal studies). The same tendencies have now emerged in architecture (Jencks). More alarmingly, perhaps, in the social sciences we observe a brand new interest in so‐ called “post‐modern” perspectives: post‐modern ethnography in anthropology (Tylor), new voices in sociology (Lash and Urri), and, of course, also the novel ideas representing economics as discourse with a distinctly post‐modern flavor (Amariglio; Rossetti; Milberg; Ruccio).

Citation

Lutz, M.A. (1991), "ETHICAL RELATIVISM, SOCIO‐ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN DIGNITY", Humanomics, Vol. 7 No. 4, pp. 60-96. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006124