The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology
Author(s)
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy
Abstract
The dichotomies between objectivity and subjectivity and between ethical and scientific approaches assumed by anthropologist R. D’Andrade are based on false assumptions on the nature of scientific practice. Scientific observation merely demands that the report can be tested or replicated by separate observations. This extends to moralism as opposed to cold logic, wherein moralists assume that the objectivity required by science prevents moral involvement.
