perspectival multinaturalism

is a way of understanding relations that allows people to account for the distinctive qualities that characterize different kinds of beings and to establish communication with them despite these differences.

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (1998, 2004) has called 'perspectival multinaturalism.' This way of understanding relations allows people to account for the distinctive qualities that characterize different kinds of beings and to establish communication with them despite these differences. It involves two interlocking assumptions. (in Kohn) . . .. . .Accordingly, Viveiros de Castro (1998:478) refers to this way of thinking as 'multinaturalism' and compares it to the multicultural logic (i.e., many cultures, one nature) typical of contemporary EuroAmerican folk-academic thought, especially in the guise of cultural relativism.14 The upshot of perspectival multinaturalism is that it permits commensurability among disparate beings. Because all creatures possess a human subjectivity, transspecific communication is possible despite the manifest existence of physical discontinuities that separate kinds of beings.

perspectival multinaturalism, n.Definitions

perspectival multinaturalism