Ruth Benedict, Anthropology & Abnormal | Normality, Abnormality & Culture | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Ruth Benedict's article "Anthropology and the Abnormal", which is often excerpted and anthologized as "A Defense of Cultural Relativism". In it, she argues that the categories of normality and abnormality - which are connected with conceptions of goodness and badness - are culturally dependent and determined.

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