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11 - Introducing Intercultural Ethics

from Part II - Theoretical Approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2020

By
Richard Evanoff
Edited by
Guido Rings  and
Sebastian Rasinger
Guido Rings
Affiliation:
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Sebastian Rasinger
Affiliation:
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
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Summary

Richard Evanoff’s chapter examines aspects that are key for most of the approaches mentioned above. Intercultural ethics is here defined as the process by which people from different cultures negotiate the norms that will govern relations between them at a variety of levels, including the interpersonal, intergroup and international. The chapter then discusses descriptive, normative and meta-ethical directions as three main methodological approaches to intercultural ethics, and it concludes by considering how intercultural dialogue on ethics might be conducted. In particular, Evanoff suggests that it may be possible for people from different cultures to co-create ethical norms on the basis of ‘third cultures’.

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intercultural communicationethicsthird culturesnormsdialogue
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The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication , pp. 187 - 202
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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