Aufsatz(elektronisch)9. Juni 2004
Knowing human moral knowledge to be true: an essay on intellectual conviction
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 307-326
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Abstract
The question addressed in this article is how people come to know the foundational axioms of their moral systems as true and correct. Drawing on my fieldwork among the Himba of northwestern Namibia, I argue that the most potent form of intellectual conviction is not generated through the external manipulations of ritual, but through a deeply internal experience in which moral knowledge coalesces with a subjectively perceived experience of timeless universality.
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