Ritual Value-Washing among the Weinerkreiser

In this tongue-in-cheek article, Dr. Morgan describes and criticizes that highly sophisticated “tribe” of people with the philosophical point of view called logical positivism. But even if the average reader of Practical Anthropology has no particular abiding interest in logical positivists, he may...

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Main Author: Morgan, Douglas N. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publishing 1959
In: Practical anthropology
Year: 1959, Volume: 6, Issue: 3, Pages: 124-127
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Summary:In this tongue-in-cheek article, Dr. Morgan describes and criticizes that highly sophisticated “tribe” of people with the philosophical point of view called logical positivism. But even if the average reader of Practical Anthropology has no particular abiding interest in logical positivists, he may well be struck by Dr. Morgan's discussion of human values, and of the fact that we cannot extricate ourselves from them. Not only can we not escape them, but neither can we escape responsibility for them.
Contains:Enthalten in: Practical anthropology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/009182965900600305