Cultural Relativity of Moral Precepts

The foundation of most intellectual discourse is Westerncentric to the exclusion of other views. This includes ideal patterns of social interaction, preference for aesthetic, accepted norms and values, and the concepts of dignity, respectability, morality and ethics. Such a position is culturally myopic. Western cultural influence colors all of them including moral precepts. The assumption is that Westerncentric moral precepts are universally followed. This paper explores these concepts and discusses the dominance of Westerncentric point of view in moral precepts. It describes how nonWesterncentric views are different and argues that understanding nonWesterncentric concepts is a useful undertaking that could expand our horizons.