Primitivist Epistemic Methodology : A Case Study in Discerning Universal Fields for Interdisciplinary, Intercultural Inquiry (Applied to the Comparative Phenomenology of Enlightenment)
While both openly and affirmatively decide to be human, and recognize that this means having a cultural perspective,
postprocessual empiricism seeks to embrace this as a condition beyond scientific transcendence THAT EPITOMIZES CULTURAL RELATIVISM,
while primitivist epistemics would seek to disclose and expound cultural dimensions based on THE NEED TO RECOGNIZE CULTURAL PLURALISM.
Both say, “Researchers are human. That means having a language, a perspective, and a culture.”
One says, “This is all that the sciences can be. Thus, I am resigning myself to cultural expression as a crude, subjective methodology—an end to itself. Science is another hopeless art.”
The other says, “This is necessary to disclose in order to discover the cultural history and perspective of this scientific research. Culture is another dimension to investigate scientifically.”
