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A s a young conservative, I was taught to despise something we were taught to call “moral relativism.” The moral relativism of the time was a particular Cold War variant: The United States and ...
Relativism pushes that capaciousness to absurdity. This, indeed, is a common temptation—one might even say a logical concomitant—of liberalism: to degenerate into its opposite by absolutizing its ...
Relativism is "Different opinions, no one authority, and as many 'truths' as there are people or societies or cultures advancing different ways of doing things," says Simon Blackburn, Professor of ...
The great C.S. Lewis, writing in response to a new British textbook suffused with moral relativism in the 1940s, predicted the consequences that relativism would produce: ...
Relativism in this sense argues for engagement, for dialogue between cultures. This is not the kind of easy cosmopolitanism that implies enormous privilege—the capacity, for example, to spend three ...
Relativism is not to be absolutized; it is itself to be relativized by the absolute. Milton D. Hunnex is professor and head of the department of philosophy at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
Cultural relativism, the realization that diverse cultures have different, incommensurable aesthetic standards, anticipated by Montaigne and Machiavelli, was the discovery of the Neapolitan ...