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Rationality and the origins of cultural relativism

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Peter Fettner is an instructor at Temple University’s Intellectual Heritage program, a cross-disciplinary liberal arts course, and teaches a Critical Thinking course for Penn State. He currently earning a Ph.D. at the George Washington University’s Human Sciences program, concentrating on ancient Greek ethno medicine and its impact on Aristotle’s thought. He is also working on treatments of relativism as a link between philosophy and cultural anthropology, and on aesthetics as a response to absurdity in the art of Marcel Duchamp. Fettner is coauthor of an article on Heidegger and Sartre on Humanism in the Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy 1999, with Professor Peter Caws.

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Fettner, P. Rationality and the origins of cultural relativism. Knowledge, Technology and Policy 15, 196–203 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12130-002-1026-9

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