Cultural relativism & Universal morality

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There is, of course, the universal principle implicit in cultural relativism
itself which to me, at least, derives straight from "Bourgeois Virtue"
(Do see McCloseky in the latest _American Scholar_): To wit

"If we take the time to talk and reserve judgment until we get to know
each other, then we're in business."

Corollary 1: "Noone absolutely convinced of his/her own self-righteousness
will every make a good ethnographer."

Corollaar 2: "Noone absolutely convinced of his/her own self-righteousness
will ever make a successful business person."

Corollary 3: "Ethnography/business do not grow out of the barrels of guns."

Invoking the spirits of Lewis Henry Morgan (a lawyer) and Benjamin Whorf
(an insurance adjuster),

Peace.

John McCreery (JLM@TWICS.COM)

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