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Cultural relativism is a theory that asserts a person’s behavior, thoughts, and perceptions are dependent on and relative to the culture in which they live; that values and standards emerge from and are specific to the culture from which they arise; and that no meaningful or universal method exists for judging other cultures. According to this approach, morality is cultural and all judgments are ethnocentric. The theory argues that no absolute values or principles exist by which a society or cul

Experimental philosophy can be defined as an approach that applies empirical research methods to philosophical questions, distinctly diverging from traditional philosophical methods. This movement gained momentum particularly in the early 2000s and has had a significant impact across various subfields, especially philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and epistemology. Experimental philosophy challenges the limits of debates based on philosophical intuitions and abstract theoretical arguments, ar

The Man Who Broke Through the Sky (originally Der Papalagi) is an original work composed of short, striking texts that offer an outsider’s perspective on Western civilization. Through the observations of Tuiavii, a chief from one of the Pacific islands, the book interrogates the values and consequences of modernity.General Information About the Book and AuthorErich Scheurmann is the compiler of the work and the person who conveyed Tuiavii’s words to a European audience. Scheurmann recorded Tuiav