Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208215

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0208215

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Values and ethics in a global world: a semantic perspective. The question: "How are we to live?" is of fundamental importance, on an individual, social and international level. Yet in an increasingly global and pluralist world it remains difficult to articulate any values that are intelligible, let alone acceptable, to everyone. Although the literature on the subject is constantly growing, the very language of the current debate suffers from ethnocentrism, with culture-specific English words like "fairness", "autonomy" and "tolerance" being widely used as would-be neutral conceptual tools. A framework for discussing ethics and values in a universal, non-ethnocentric perspective is urgently needed. This project aims at providing such a framework and putting it to work.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-12-2004

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $181,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Linguistic Anthropology | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Anthropology | Discourse And Pragmatics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Religion and ethics not elsewhere |

Other Keywords

Anthropology | Communication Across Languages and Cultures | Discourse And Pragmatics | Linguistic Anthropology | Multicultural, Intercultural And Cross-Cultural Studies | Religion and ethics not elsewhere

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