Ethical Relativism and Critical Regionalism: An Ethical Viewpoint on the Non-Western Architectural Professions
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Dec 4, 2017
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Ethical Relativism Cultural Relativism Critical Regionalism ethics architectural professions
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This paper focuses on the ethical theories and practices relating to Critical Regionalism, Tropicality, and Contemporary Vernacular today. Ethical Relativism is selected as a main ethical philosophy to question, challenge, and examine the hybridized fusion that results when the complex structural dislocation of Western modern discourse is applied to different regional grounds far from its origin. Ethical Relativism denies that there is a single moral standard which is equally applicable to all people at all times. The empirically ascertained fact of this ethics is that there are a great many different and even conflicting rules and practices prevailing at different times and in different place. Therefore the same act may be regarded as right in one place and as wrong in another.
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Vongkulbhisal, S. (2017). Ethical Relativism and Critical Regionalism: An Ethical Viewpoint on the Non-Western Architectural Professions. Nakhara : Journal of Environmental Design and Planning, 13, 89–98. Retrieved from https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/nakhara/article/view/104611
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Ladd, J. (1973). Ethical relativism. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
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