| title | author | date |
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On Cultural Relativism and "Radical Doubt" |
David B. Zilberman |
1995 |
Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn, in their study of culture[^1], mention in passing that Descartes, the man who commenced the new Western philosophy by introducing his method of "radical doubt", was also the first one who detected the problem of cultural relativism. And indeed, as we read in Chapter 1 of his "Discourse on Method":
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