CAN WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER? ETHICS IN THE TIMES OF DIVERSITY

• Authors: Maciejewska M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The main questions of the text are whether persons committed to different values can reach agreement, how they can achieve it, and what kind of ethics can be open to such an agreement if discrimination is to be avoided at the same time. Taking the discussion between R. Rorty and C. Geertz as the starting point, the authoress argues that we should abandon the concepts of ethnocentrism and relativism because they are ambiguous and that the crucial distinction runs between their different meanings. D. T. Meyers's ethics based on empathy and recognition is a solution to problems of diversity, both intra- and intercultural. It entails a radical change of ethical paradigm: an individualised approach to particular situations instead of general rules. But it can be applied only if the West gives up its claims to universality.

Keywords

EN

EMPATHY; ETHICS; MULTICULTURALISM; RECOGNITION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology. Since 2007 - Warsaw University, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology
• Journal: Etyka (Ethics)
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 39
• Pages: 87-98
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Maciejewska M.

• M. Maciejewska, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3, 00-047 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04428553