PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Peer Pressure, Steve Wozniak, Relativism
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Grounding principle for their world prime directive: never interfere with less developed cultures. Relates back to the bbc video from last class. Business tends to be pragmatic: pragmatism originated from america, 19th century what is right is, anthropologist william sumner what works . Argues that all culture and religion have their own morals and that there is not a universal standard. East china, india, japan: adam smith wealth of nations. Original thinking always comes from the west and the east just copies it: reasoning, they just can be inventive, they just don"t want to be inventive, something is stopping them from being inventive. Cannot be #1 since china has invented things a very long time ago. There is more freedom and show more individuality won"t be labeled as an outsider in the western countries: the attitude from the west vs. the attitude from the. Creative people like to be free: ideas economy and intellectual capital.