Three Sides of the Metaphysical Empire: The Morally Bad Side, the Morally Good Side and the Morally Neutral Side (Part 2)
摘要
My aim in this chapter is to continue my determination of what is (morally) wrong with the metaphysical empire by examining the third side of the metaphysical empire, namely the morally neutral side. In the preceding chapter, I stated that in reconciling mutual exclusivism and cultural appropriationism, one does not have to take the side of either view. One can plausibly take a middle path as Kwasi Wiredu (1997a, 1997b) does with cultural universals and cultural particulars. In his reconciliation of cultural universals and cultural particulars, he tries to find the middle of the road between ‘a hard doctrine of universals and a hare doctrine of relativism’ (Wirth 2000 pp. 157–58). Therefore, I shall explore and engage Wiredu’s seminal philosophizing on the relationship between cultural universals and cultural particulars from which I shall derive a middle of the road between mutual exclusivism and cultural appropriationism.