Posted by Jost on August 7, 2006, at 13:57:08
In reply to Re: people in Rowanda... Dinah, Gabbi-G, Phillipa, posted by Estella on August 7, 2006, at 1:50:42
Estella, I have two thoughts about your comments on the happiness index, etc.
1. How else can we think about happiness, other than in our Western way, since we are members of a Western civilization?
2. Is it possible that post-structuralism, or post=modernism, or whatever, is itself a "Western" idea--
ie the idea of cultural relativism--or the notion that 'our" way of thinking about things is limited, not necessary, and culturally-conditoned, is itself much more a Western idea than anything else?
Jost
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