How To Use Relativism In A Sentence
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I just wanted to make a few comments about the sand trap that I'll call perspectival relativism.
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The main genera of relativism can be distinguished according to the object they seek to relativize.
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It is not the reality of scepticism or of truth dissolving relativism, but the claim to truth of all formal argument that is affected.
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From moral relativism to denying the unique moral authority of God was a short step.
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When you get to the core of the argument, the question of relativism vs. absolutism is what the issue is about.
Waldo Jaquith - Bob Gibson opposes Amendment #1.
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Hobbes and Cavendish shared pessimism about human nature, and an anxiety about ethical and linguistic relativism.
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One of the results of relativism is the inability to discuss place as anything other than an uninterpretable given.
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The group of them got into a happy conversation, and like a pot set vigorously aboil, the waiting room was soon splattered by the frolicsome four: "radical secular left," "cultural relativism run amok," "post-modern world," "the mushy middle," etc.
Archive 2008-03-01
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This movement for cultural relativism within Western society betrays the basic values on which our open society is constructed.
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The question remains whether one should reject the concept of pluralism which reflects moral and ethical relativism.
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No, the real issue is the disturbing moral relativism of our media and their lack of moral clarity at a time of trial for freedom.
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Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
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In the modern / postmodern era, the perduring problem is relativism.
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What all the authors agree on is that a deep encounter with another faith tradition does not result in what some nervous people fear: indifferentism or relativism.
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It is often assumed that “moral subjectivism” must denote a kind of lumpish relativism according to which whatever sentiments an individual happens to have determine the moral truth for that person; it is often assumed that moral subjectivism would therefore render incoherent the ideas of moral improvement, moral criticism, and moral disagreement.
Moral Anti-Realism
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
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Clearly, Judge Sotomayor's thoughtful, self-reflective perspectivism has little to do with any personal agenda or legal relativism.
Robert D. Stolorow: Judge Sotomayor, Republican Inquisitors, and the Fallacy of Immaculate Perception
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Earlier I rejected a crude relativism and suggested that we need to accept that there is a difference between what we take to be true and what is true.
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Those chapters use gender issues to illustrate the conflict between universalism and cultural relativism.
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World music has long been mustered by both camps to provide evidence for new theories, whether they stress cultural relativism or universalism.
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It is not moral absolutism but theological relativism we would do well to explore if our real need is for a God with whom we can engage our lives.
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So we're left with an anti-relativism argument that traffics in relativism, an anti-corporate argument framed in corporate terms, and an Adorno/Horkheimer name-drop without enough self-realization to notice that the exclusionary schema it's propping up is a mirror-image recapitulation of what Adorno and Horkheimer were warning against.
Archive 2009-07-01
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Relativism or "contextualism" as it is sometimes known, is the more difficult of the two extremes to deal with because there are often immediate political consequences to a rejection of popular beliefs held by significant minorities, which nevertheless do not square with basic ethical, logical, or epistemological principles, much less imperical evidence.
Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism
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It becomes even more appaling when some twisted argument of cultural relativism is made to downplay the crimes the governments of many countries commit against LGBT people.
Save Kiana Firouz
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The rise of relativism, and its inevitable corollary, nihilism, represents the triumph of the bourgeois.
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As Lévi-Strauss said, ‘The people for whom the term cultural relativism was invented, have rejected it.’
One River
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We do not accuse the authors of the imposture of relativism.
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It is this crude version of relativism about truth which I am concerned with here, not its more sophisticated philosophical cousins.
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Those who disagree are misled either by a warped view of history or a pernicious form of moral relativism.
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Haraway replies that it rejects both objectivism and relativism for the ways they let knowers escape responsibility for the representations they construct.
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Culinary relativism is no longer an excuse for preferring gefilte fish to seafood quenelles.
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This derives from a malign mix of undigested social psychology and post-1960s social relativism.
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In the very act of rejecting hierarchies of value, relativism constructs a hierarchy, which values its own relativism above any absolutism.
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To him the term "spirituality" was akin to the notion of pure relativism.
Loren-Paul Caplin: Religious vs. Spiritual: Semantics Or Neurotics?
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On the one hand the Thusness-philosophy argues for competition, on the other hand its relativism trait denies its validity.
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However, relativism is a philosophical doctrine that goes far beyond such obvious facts.
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However, such relativism is self-refuting since what it states about knowledge must equally apply to that claim itself.
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More little gems from that treasure chest of cultural relativism.
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Thus the problem is clearly of escaping relativism and historicism without denying the historical origin of our existence and thought (Hegel).
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Many serious thinkers reject relativism because of this implication.
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These are sometimes called appraiser and agent relativism respectively.
Moral Relativism
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Some philosophers will find implausible the claim that contextualism is the cure for relativism.
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Because postmodernism is associated with a suspicion of meta-narratives, intellectual tendencies such as post-structuralism, relativism and pragmatism have been labeled postmodernist.
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He rails against the ‘dictatorship of relativism’.
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I doubt that the students really dispute these claims; they are just being stubborn in clinging to naive relativism.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Someone Like Me
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Cultural relativism undermines the moral certitude of our principal enemy, Catholicism (aka "obscurantism")
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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This can be done in a number of ways: Cognitive relativism is a school of philosophic thought that holds that an idea is only true if it [...]
Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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The moral relativism that will probably let Conyers skate is part of that ideology.
Sound Politics: A Question For Lawyers:
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Traditionalists may howl, but in today's world, cultural relativism rules.
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Perhaps because relativism is associated with such views, few philosophers are willing to describe themselves as relativists.
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This extreme cultural relativism allows no preference for one form of society over another.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The linchpin of my argument is the distinction between absolutism, relativism, and pluralism.
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Aquino recognizes that Newman's preference for what he called real or presumptive knowledge over notional or abstract knowledge was vulnerable to the charges of relativism and fideism.
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More little gems from that treasure chest of cultural relativism.
Times, Sunday Times
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First he casts doubt on the possibility of giving a coherent interpretation to the relationist strand of relativism.
Social Epistemology
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For all the bleating of the strident that this makes for "moral relativism" or, in the weighty but sadly empty words of Stephen Harper, "nihilism" - nothing turns on it.
Gen X at 40
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According to cultural relativism, slavery is wrong if our society disapproves of it.
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The embracing of diverse ethical bases for libertarianism might lead some people to accuse me of moral relativism.
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Thus, when he protests that his pluralism is to be sharply distinguished from relativism and indifferentism (as he repeatedly does), he is only partly right.
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That is something that you often hear about from the perspective of cultural relativism.
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How I hate born-again neopagan politically-correct moral relativism ... but I do love the benighted sinners who practice this particular form of synthetic spiritualism.
The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison
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Post-modernism is true in seeing that relativism exists.
Sunday Salon: “What Good are the Arts” by John Carey: Some musings Part 2
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But for whatever reason, either archaic moral relativism or in the name of shortsighted Realpolitik, we don't act.
Felix Marquardt: Intolerable Excuses
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One wonders if in the morass of cultural relativism, the only sane ground is to eschew all taboo.
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This New Age subjectivism and relativism encourage people to believe that reality is whatever you want it to be.
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Yet many people would now pay at least lip-service to the sceptical relativism of Montaigne's generation.
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Your paragraph attempting to distinguish “moral absolutes” from “objective morality” which need no distinguishment, as they are the same is the classic argument for moral relativism.
Spark: Atheist Morality | Mind on Fire
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In anatomizing character, the Victorians' leading fear ‘was not moral relativism but weakness of will.’
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
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In another situation, relativism and politicalization may serve counterposed goals.
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By adopting a muted form of cultural relativism, the scientific establishment seeks to coexist with other points of view.
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In a world of relativism and scepticism, mercy seems a counterintuitive offer.
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Theologians and other church leaders need to clarify the church's view of itself, its commitment to ecumenism, and the points at which relativism is problematic.
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This extreme cultural relativism allows no preference for one form of society over another.
The Times Literary Supplement
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However, the distinction here is between absolutism and relativism, not between absolutism and relationalism.
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There is no room for logic in any system of pluralism and relativism.
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Many revere this teaching, only to fall into the trap of relativism: If all worldviews are in some way true, then nothing is really true.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The relativist must therefore hold that relativism is both true and false.
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Many revere this teaching, only to fall into the trap of relativism: If all worldviews are in some way true, then nothing is really true.
THE BROKEN GOD
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At school, cultural relativism got the upper hand over universal values.
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After reporting about religion for a few years I came up with what I called Weiss's Law of Religious Relativism: Every religion is crazy, by definition, to a nonbeliever.
Politics Daily
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On every other subject, they assure us all that ‘right is right and wrong is wrong’ and that cultural relativism is bunk from the elites.
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It defends the general reliability, corrigibility, and progressiveness of empirical knowledge against relativism and skepticism.
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From the perspective of Hobbes's critics the doctrines that lay at the heart of his atheism were materialism, necessitarianism, moral relativism and egoism, and scepticism concerning natural and revealed religion.
Hume on Religion
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Sometimes relativism is combined with representationalism (McGinn 1983, Tye 1994), but it arguably fits more naturally with phenomenism (McLaughlin 2003, Cohen
Inverted Qualia
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It has the further advantage of not forcing us right from the beginning, and without any theoretical alternative, into outright relativism and irrationalism.
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They steam implacably ahead while the rest of us flail about in a sea of moral relativism and get nothing but mental cramp for our trouble.
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So how does this square with a willingness to tackle moral relativism and the government's foreign policy priority of promoting religious freedom?
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For a so-called "conservative" state, this kind of moral relativism is just amazing to me.
Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say
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As well as recoiling from relativism and the numerous crises it has inflicted on us - which together amount to the breakdown of our society, We English seem to me to be doing what all people everywhere and everywhen do at such times of crisis - looking back to a golden age of peace, happiness and order.
Muslims Back Livingstone
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One cannot clearly see the wrongness of cultural/moral relativism (and collectivism and subjectivism) until one has fully grasped the concept of rational (and therefore objective) morality, i.e., morality utterly grounded in the facts of reality (not the fantasies of supernature) and discovered through rational thinking that recognises man's life as man's standard of value.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Moving on, I would not characterize my position as "emotivism" but rather as "relativism," the recognition that viewpoint is critical in moral and ethical judgements and even in the formulation of the self.
Max Stirner and the Problem of Compassion
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Pinker talks about relativism, social constructivism, science studies, cultural studies, critical theory, postmodernism, and deconstructionism.
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The moral relativism is either schizoprhenic or downright embarrasing.
Town hall anger echoed in Congress
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Wittgenstein sometimes appears to be committed to cognitive relativism as just described.
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With the loss of religious precepts and the growth in relativism, our only arbiter now is the law or regulation.
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
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Moral relativism from the right wing bigot, shocker!
Think Progress » Missouri lawmaker: Allowing gays to serve openly increases a military’s casualty rate.
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There is too much moral relativism across the board from the champions of liberal democracy, she feels.
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It is perfectly possible to accept moral relativism while rejecting epistemic relativism - relativism about truth.
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The ‘Death of God’ might have arrived on the wings of relativism, which glided in on the slipstream of Western rationalism.
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Bennett launched a crusade for "moral values" against decadent "liberal relativism.".
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Their bedtime exchanges are some of the most beautiful examples of cultural relativism recorded.
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This is a false and counterproductive approach; it is to true open-mindedness what glib moral relativism is to genuine tolerance.
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The cynicism of many claims of cultural relativism can also be seen in the fact that far too often they are for foreign consumption only.
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With the loss of religious precepts and the growth in relativism, our only arbiter now is the law or regulation.
Times, Sunday Times
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The schools are preachers of the modern liberal faith in multiculturalism, environmentalism, moral relativism, anti-imperialism (as if this is what America is about!) and what I call racialism (race consciousness).
AMERICAN DIGEST
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A further consequence of this view is that the idea of an untranslatable language - an idea often found in association with the thesis of conceptual relativism - cannot be given any coherent formulation.
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But Western philosophy preaches that cultural relativism starts from one's own.
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It has given rise to moral and cultural relativism, or the notion that there can be no hierarchy of values.
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If they persist, they may find that relativism will prove a poor friend in their hour of need.
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Ratzinger's homily is now known as the "dictatorship of relativism" speech, and with good reason.
The Year of two Popes
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Milbank claims that their basic thrust is nihilistic, as is that of positivism, Hegelianism, liberalism, relativism, subjectivism and pluralism, and that they are founded on the ultimacy of aggression, violence and war.
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There is more to be said, particularly about the threats of relativism, nihilism, and scepticism, which still lurk.
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Such a position does indeed amount to a form of epistemological relativism.
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The same evasive logic allowed Heidegger, another critic of scientific objectivism and cultural relativism with no time for ethical dilemmas, famously to insist that ‘only a God will save us now.’
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Taking fallibilism seriously heads off the charge that contextualism encourages strongly anti-rationalist positions such as relativism.
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Sometimes they affirm absolute relativism, a contradiction in terms.
Christianity Today
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Postmodernist beliefs therefore tend to a multiculturalist pluralism and relativism.
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Those who disagree are misled either by a warped view of history or a pernicious form of moral relativism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The moral relativism of the 1960s radicals was wrong.
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We cannot say that relativism is true, because to assert that something “is true” is to assert that there is a standard of truth that is factually the case regardless of which set (s) of conventions we use to describe it.
Think Progress » Clinton: Media, Politicians Shouldn’t Fuel ‘Hatriot’ Groups With Anti-Government Rhetoric That Inspired McVeigh
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They smack of totalitarian despotism, and their quaint claim for absolute certainty seems anachronistic in this postmodern age of relativism and deconstruction.
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Some writers, however, have noted the parallelisms between an objectivistic Marxism and Whitehead's objective relativism.
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Diversity rooted in relativism is the faith of our age, and it is not difficult to catch the spirit.
The Main Objection to Sacred Music
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They defend an epistemological relativism and maintain that there are as many ways in which phenomena can be "constructed" as there are theories, paradigms or conceptual schemes.
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The core claim here is that fallibilism is different from relativism, suggesting that it is possible to distinguish between truth and the context of justification of claims to truth.
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And there is a tinge of moral relativism in the world expressed by those who say: he is imposing his values.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since the 1960s there has been a marked shift from moral absolutism to relativism.
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When he argues against Protagoras' relativism, Socrates gets the sophist to concede that some people are wiser than others when it comes to what is good for the city.
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In any case, whether or not our present lethal lack of cohesion can be attributed to the rise of multiculturalism, the moral relativism implicit in that view always made it a dubious position to hold.
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There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of relativism, cultural and cognitive.
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Cognitive relativism is a school of philosophic thought that holds that an idea is only true if it is true within a particular conceptual framework that is subjective to an individual or a particular social group.
Is Barack Obama An American Citizen? | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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Pluralism is a competency, not just mere subjective relativism, but ethical pluralism.
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The roots of relativism lie not in empirical data but in certain epistemological and metaphysical preconceptions.
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Unlike many conservatives, he gives equal time to a critique of capitalism - its ravages on human communities, its promotion of a thoroughgoing materialism, and its pervasive inculcation of relativism.
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Today we have other models, which we sometimes follow blindly, models which arouse and strengthen religious indifference: relativism, laicism, unrestrained consumerism, and other models.
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The debate about relativism turns on separating truth claims and actions.
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HARRIS: At a mass the day before he was elected pope, then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, warned against what he called the dictatorship of relativisms.
CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005
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His unorthodox approach to art is part of a general approach to knowledge and reality, and is always pervasively informed by his cognitivism, nominalism, relativism, and constructivism.
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One of the effortless abilities of the human tapestry that is TV is cultural relativism.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is precisely that cultural relativism informing the comparative approach that now provides the unspoken credo of contemporary society.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He firmly rejects any suggestion that the existence of conflicting moral judgements implies moral relativism and undermines the status and universal scope of moral judgements.
The Times Literary Supplement
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So whatever is meant by absolutism is antonymous to relativism.
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He was unsettled by the relativism that discarded the notion of unilinear, directional time and placed Indigenous perspectives on equal terms with Western ones.
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Once again, your moral relativism is predictable and pathetic.
Think Progress » Gays Are More Dangerous Than Guns In Florida
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I do think we have to tackle the issue of relativism, of subjectivity, of all the modern isms including postmodernism.
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It's cultural relativism in a nutshell!
Times, Sunday Times
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Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
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The cartoon version of relativism he is describing does not pervade society, because it does not exist at all.
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This highlights the need to understand the difference between cultural relativism and ethnically sensitive practice.
Taking Child Abuse Seriously: Contemporary issues in child protection theory and practice
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His trance-like universe of moral relativism was disturbed when he met a group of his coreligionists who promised him answers and certainties, if only he renounced his wayward path and became a true believer.
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Earlier on he had sought to dismiss the moral qualms by learned allusions to cultural relativism (in East India, “Lepcha old men of eighty copulate with girls of eight, and nobody minds”) and literary history (Dante with nine-year-old Beatrice, Petrarch with twelve-year-old Laura, Poe with thirteen-year-old Virginia).
The enactment of moral experience
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This was my first lesson in moral relativism.
THE EARTH: An Intimate History
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His trance-like universe of moral relativism was disturbed when he met a group of his coreligionists who promised him answers and certainties, if only he renounced his wayward path and became a true believer.
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The notion of interdependence between elements of complex traditions also tells us something about commensurability and relativism.
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Thus, forms of moral relativism assert the relativity of moral values; forms of epistemological relativism assert the relativity of knowledge.
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He blasphemed the only sacred values of the postmodern West: skepticism, relativism, pluralism and tolerance.
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Cultural relativism states that there is no objective truth.
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It grew out of the relativism that was originally promoted as a means in the search for a many-sided truth.
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On the other hand, moral relativism asserts the relativity of morality.
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Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
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The search gave rise to a widespread commitment to relativism, to the view that there is no such unconditional ground, and with it the risk of skepticism and nihilism.
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It is often extremely difficult to embrace cultural relativism fully.
Sociology
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I do use the viewpoint of cultural relativism; I think it's the only thing we can do under the circumstances.
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Since the 1960s there has been a marked shift from moral absolutism to relativism.
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This relativism is central to the impossibility of finding an uncontentious definition of terrorism.
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That dogmatic worship of relativism can only undermine the principle of any belief worth having, whether religious or secular.
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Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory.
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If so, how does pluralism differ from radical relativism and subjectivism?
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Wittgenstein sometimes appears to be committed to cognitive relativism as just described.
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Such perspectivism is not to be mistaken for relativism, however.
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In some ways this sort of relativism strikes a progressive and reasonable note.
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Cultural relativism played no part in the defence arguments, but it is one of the two major themes of the book.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Are we truly content to embrace moral relativism so casually?
Times, Sunday Times
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As I say, this sort of relativism is pretty popular in certain circles.
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Such preaching collides with the spirit of our times, captured as it is by subjectivism and relativism.
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The question remains whether one should reject the concept of pluralism which reflects moral and ethical relativism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The moral relativism that pollutes what remain of the rules of war - the good guys never do bad things - has entirely eradicated objective judgement.
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But moral relativism is the death knell of a civilisation.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example, moral subjectivism is that species of moral relativism that relativizes moral value to the individual subject.
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In this context, truth was elusory, and scepticism, cynicism, relativism and atheism were present under a veil of orthodoxy.
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Context is only deemed important when such relativism would be seen to give validity to bigotry, racism and prejudice.
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For example, moral subjectivism is that species of moral relativism that relativizes moral value to the individual subject.
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The three introductory readings come out of the rich anthropological literature on culture and cultural relativism.
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Betti and Hirsch argued that Gadamer's thought is a kind of relativism by the objectivism. Derrida, the representative for deconstructivism, criticize Gadamer too.
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We cannot let cultural relativism becomes the last refuge of repression.
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Section 5 : Debating Universalism versus Cultural Relativism : How Is the Notion of Culture Discussed?
