Japanese Bonsai or/and California Redwood?
| Autor: | David C. Kelly |
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| Rok vydání: | 1978 |
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| Zdroj: | Missiology: An International Review. 6:297-310 |
| ISSN: | 2051-3623 0091-8296 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/009182967800600304 |
| Popis: | Can behavior be judged apart from its cultural context? No, says Professor Kelly, but that does not foreclose moral judgments; in fact, to withhold judgment is to avoid responsibility. But if we focus only on the external act, we fail to see how it relates to the group and to the ethical system of the group - its assumptions and worldview. Conscious ethical reflection can not only help us in our cross-cultural communication, but in this process it can heighten and sharpen our moral sensitivities. Father Kelly also suggests some methodological tools to assist us in this reflection. IT IS NOW widely recognized that the study of culture is indispensable for anyone seeking to understand and describe human existence in our global village. If the complex series of human activities embraced by the term culture is at the same time understood as learned and shared behavior, then culture may also be seen as a form of communication (Hall 1959:51). Culture defined as learned and shared behavior - as communication - provides us with a wider platform for assessment and dialogue: assessment, inasmuch as it helps us acquire a broader vision of reality; dialogue, because it puts us in touch with others involved in similar situations. Since differing cultures have their own view of man and his place in the universe we might well expect to discover that differing societies have distinctive ethical systems, their way of finding out what ought to be done. The answers and the way we |
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