Claves epistemológicas en el enfoque de Charles Taylor para entender otras culturas, parte II

Olain  Olaciregui-Berrouet; Javier Gracia-Calandín

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Epistemological keys in Charles Taylor's approach to understand other cultures, part II

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Olain Olaciregui-Berrouet Universidad de Valencia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0228-6236
Javier Gracia-Calandín Universidad de Valencia https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9260-5274

No. 75 (2022): Diciembre

Abstract

The aim of the article is to point out the limitations of scientism to account human experience and to affirm the need to apprehend the human being from a comprehensive perspective, which is the way to a perennial intercultural encounter. For this purpose, Charles Taylor's approach is used. First, the conceptual difference between the “natural sciences” and the “social sciences” is clarified. Secondly, the importance of a hermeneutic methodology in the social sciences is stressed to overcome the double risk of ethnocentrism and the relativistic thesis of cultural incorrigibility. Finally, intercultural dialogue is presented as an appropriate way towards a self-criticism of cultures and a broadened understanding between human beings.

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social sciences, worldview, hermeneutics, ethnocentrism, interculturality

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Olaciregui-Berrouet , O. ., & Gracia-Calandín , J. (2022). Epistemological keys in Charles Taylor’s approach to understand other cultures, part II. Cinta De Moebio. Revista De Epistemología De Ciencias Sociales, (75), 145–158. Retrieved from https://revistaterapiaocupacional.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/69572