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The idea that
a culture can only be truly evaluated by its own standards and not
by any common criteria. Thus, cultural relativism is a liberal and
"liberalizing" concept in the social sciences, and is, of course, rejected by
the old conservative line. What is interesting is that radicals
also reject cultural relativism, at least to a degree, particularly its
"radical" version. Radical cultural relativism holds that the beliefs, values,
and modes and organization of behavior of one culture can never be objectively or validly
judged superior to those of another culture. This is, of course, quite contrary to
humanists and socialists of one kind or another (Marxian, Christian, etc.) who postulate a "human
essence" that when violated by any social
structure or cultural system results in injustice - an
injustice that must be properly criticized.
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