| 单词 | relativism |
| 例句 | The term ‘relativism’ is contentious, but I use it, rather than ‘constructivism’, because I want to refer to those who hold that reality does not constrain the beliefs we can hold about the real world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Here their relativism breaks down and they offer us their own version of Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Prescriptivists uphold standards of excellence and a respect for the best of our civilization, and are a bulwark against relativism, vulgar populism, and the dumbing down of literate culture. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It is a standard ploy of opponents of relativism to argue that we all share certain commonsensical capacities for reasoning, and thus we can all recognize better knowledge when we see it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Concealed within relativism there thus lies a dream of omnipotence, a fantasy recompense, perhaps, for the impotence and irrelevance of academic life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What is the driving force behind relativism and postmodernism? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This book is directed against three types of relativism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The problem, it is claimed, with grand narratives is that they privilege one perspective over another; the alternative is a relativism which holds that all perspectives are equally valid. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z What Shapin offers is essentially a circular argument: talk of constraint is incompatible with relativism, but historians are committed to relativism, consequently they must not talk of constraint. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The second of Engelke’s two pillars of anthropological work is “cultural relativism.” Should Anthropologists Judge the People They Study? 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The movie glances toward this moral gray area but mostly looks elsewhere, practicing a troubling kind of access journalism and falling back on a dubious epistemological relativism. ‘My Old School’ Review: An Impostor Makes the Honor Roll 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Eschewing the cautious “religion of peace” script that typifies most talking-head critiques, Ms. Hirsi Ali forthrightly denounces Western multiculturalism and moral relativism. The State of Conservatism 2010-06-11T21:46:00Z It’s clear that Andersen is uncomfortable with the extreme relativism we’ve settled into. Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Moreover, it is written as a defence of the notion of verifiable truth, and against the fashionable encroachment of relativism. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z Titled “Cobalt,” the episode was an anxious, nervy hour that resisted overwrought obviousness — the Achilles’ heel of “The Walking Dead” — in favor of shaded musings on the moral relativism of the survival instinct. 'Fear the Walking Dead' Recap: I Saw the Devil's Face 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z He finds it ironic that moral relativists temporarily misplace their relativism when talk turns to Jesus. Religion ruined my childhood 2014-02-16T00:00:00Z Something about Hollywood's tendency to belabor and oversimplify its points doesn't mesh well with the genre; these films thrive on ambiguity and moral relativism. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "The Ides of March" 2011-10-05T13:18:05Z "It's an episode about moral relativism about what is considered torture and what is not," Robert King said. 'The Good Wife' producers want Rumsfeld on show 2011-01-15T00:46:03Z Dr. Appleby did not reject postmodernism and multiculturalism out of hand but feared that they had taken history too far toward relativism. Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Yet Ms. Hopkins, the Sheffield professor, advises that we shouldn’t take Ford’s moral relativism too far. John Ford?s ?Broken Heart? and ? ?Tis Pity She?s a Whore? 2012-01-27T18:00:00Z She is right that a well-meaning commitment to tolerance can be easily exploited, and that women’s rights are often the first to be sacrificed in the service of cultural relativism. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z But part of that post-Enlightenment relativism, I guess, leads me to doubt that either side has a monopoly on truth and to suspect that my side, as well, has major cultural blind spots. Hey, liberals: You haven’t won the culture war 2012-11-10T20:00:00Z While the whole thing is ruthlessly well done, it also sometimes seems to lean into a kind of moral relativism. ‘Coming Home in the Dark’ Review: No Picnic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z While his ex-wife warns him, “Truth depends on how you shape and present it,” for Danlin such relativism is anathema. ‘The Boat Rocker’: Ha Jin’s timely novel about freedom of the press 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z “He’s accused, as we are, of moral relativism,” Mr. Gordon said. 'Homeland' Recap: In the Finale, Carrie's Suburban Fantasy Is Dashed 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Our ambiguous slide into moral relativism has left us all at sea. Review | Chuck Klosterman tries to make sense of our absurd reality in ‘Raised in Captivity’ 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z In this instance, the demands made by global feminists trumped cultural relativism, at least when it involved violence against women. Women’s rights is the longest revolution 2013-02-21T17:14:00Z Another, different group of self-appointed music "experts" will be equally enraged by this book, people who spit out the words "relativism" as if they are going to choke to death at the very thought. Howard Goodall's top 10 music books 2013-02-06T13:47:13Z That impacts how they behave, she claims, something Western liberals, who worship at the altar of cultural relativism, don’t want to recognize. Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The acquittal was a victory for moral relativism and sexual tolerance, as well as for literary freedom. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z They can't see and will discard any argument that I'm making as "moral relativism." “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The moral relativism that would have served him well in analysing international relations in any other century proved disastrous in his own. The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield by Michael Bentley ? review 2011-07-15T21:55:05Z He popularized the idea of “cultural relativism,” in which societies exist as parallel universes, with beliefs and behaviors that are products of their environments. Museum of Natural History’s Renewed Hall Holds Treasures and Pain 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Such persistent, menacing furtiveness promises to wreck Kehlmann’s nerves, or else promises to tug him over to the dark side, to Heidl’s state of moral relativism and anarchy. Review | If a rich liar asked you to ghostwrite his memoir, would you do it? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z Shaped perhaps by the pervasive moral relativism of my 1970s childhood, that feature of my teaching often sits poorly with students who spent many years learning “the test” and earnestly desire “the right answer.” I don’t hate millennials anymore! 2013-05-25T13:00:00Z His encyclicals, his thoughts on reason and faith, and his criticism of the relativism of all values have been closely followed in the press. Author rattles Jewish leaders 2012-06-21T21:17:00Z But it's not moral relativism, because I don't personally support FGC, and definitely don't support it for minors. “Put the fangs back in feminism”: Author Rafia Zakaria on how feminism loses relevance to whiteness 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z The two critics then fell into a contentious debate about the inherent relativism of movie reviewing, with Ebert insisting that every film needs to be judged in its proper context. Review: In ‘Max,’ a Shellshocked Dog Reverts to His Heroic Self 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Currently, the aging stewards of pluralism and relativism have influenced a new population of painters, leaving them confused by the ambitions of Rauschenberg. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z I have been thinking not just of Chekhov but of Harold Pinter, who is an even better guide to Trump’s brutal relativism and canny opportunism. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The battlegrounds were college campuses, Hollywood, the bedroom — anywhere that moral relativism, secularism and the general “culture of depravity,” as dedicated warriors like Rush Limbaugh put it, held sway. 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z In the same period, a generation of academics came of age and made it their mission to justify pluralism with a critical theory of relativism. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z But all that talk about surveillance and American relativism gets so dark after a while. What if Marvel directors cast their former stars? 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z The film also got me thinking about cultural relativism and the ultimate meaning of human freedom. Review: In ‘Under the Sun,’ Two Views of North Korea 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z This ethnographic orientation, distilled in the concept of cultural relativism, was a radical departure, as unique in its way as was Einstein's theory of relativity in the field of physics. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z But what is more important than the relativism of age is the curiosity that is lodged by doing the play a second time. André De Shields Isn’t Done With ‘King Lear’ (or ‘Hadestown’) 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z But what if irony leads to a sinkhole of relativism and disavowal? David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z That doesn’t make “Stories We Tell” an exercise in relativism. Movie Review: ‘Stories We Tell,’ Written and Directed by Sarah Polley 2013-05-09T21:37:27Z The legacy of postmodernism is this apolitical vacuousness and aesthetic relativism that does not want to call anything absolutely good or bad, that is scared of taking things too seriously. I have had enough of irony 2012-05-30T19:00:04Z Only the most perverse forms of moral relativism would brush off their gaping character flaws as a product of their times. Donald Trump, FDR and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson problem: Here’s how we stop defending historical racism and move forward 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Someday, the generation that learned about moral relativism from “Wicked” will feel the same way. Why “Into the Woods” Matters 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The American Civil War Center in Richmond, Va., does something like that, shading the conflict with hints of relativism. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z When I was a Princeton student in the 1970s, conservative alumni were up in arms about "moral relativism". Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Maybe that’s part of what helped him avoid the rabbit hole of babbling perspectives and relativism that so irritated people like Crouch. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z A bit of moral relativism crept in as well. ‘The Untouchables’ TV Series: Old-School Gangster Trapping 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z And yet, for all of the company’s catholic tastes, there are lines of relativism it will not cross. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z In this sense, the subject of “Midsommar” is the absurdity and obtuseness of suspending moral judgment for other cultures in the name of curiosity, respect, or relativism. “Midsommar,” Reviewed: Ari Aster’s Backwards Horror Story of an American Couple in Sweden 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z But if we both take responsibility for the excesses of the extremes within our tribe and stay away from moral relativism, whataboutisms, and instead focus on our own accountability, there is hope. Forensic psychological expert: MAGA "victimhood" is a major recruitment tool for violence 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z “Moral relativism” has made Penn “almost unrecognizable,” Huntsman told Penn President M. Elizabeth Magill in a letter that cited its “silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel.” Column: Angry over antisemitism, billionaires are seeking to cancel free speech on campus 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z “Moral relativism has fueled the university’s race to the bottom and sadly now has reached a point where remaining impartial is no longer an option,” he said. Huntsman halts giving to alma mater Penn over response to ‘historic Hamas evil’ 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z The criminalization of truth is particularly perplexing amid a renaissance of toxic relativism, yet it’s an arduous reality. Criminalizing Christianity: March toward ideological totalitarianism may land believers behind bars 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Critics on the right, like philosopher Allan Bloom, once complained about the flaccid relativism of progressives who preached tolerance as the highest virtue. Review | What would Freud say about our online behavior? 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Too many are skirting this responsibility and exposing children to moral relativism that could inevitably hamper their growth as humans. Parents, wake up: Your kids aren’t your friends, and neither are their screens 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z After John Paul II’s death in 2005, Benedict gave a defining speech against the “dictatorship of relativism,” delivered before the conclave to choose the next pope. Benedict’s Death Leaves Catholic Conservatives Bereft 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z After John Paul II’s death in 2005, Benedict gave a powerful and defining speech against the temptation of relativism, delivered before the conclave to choose the next pope. Long before he was pope, the man who became Benedict was a central figure in the church. 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z One of the themes he often returned to was the threat of relativism, rejecting the concept that moral values were not absolute but relative to those holding them and the times they lived in. Former Pope Benedict was first pontiff to resign in 600 years 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Later, he would attack what he saw as "religious relativism", the belief that no one faith can claim to be the sole vessel of truth or to represent the world's only saviour. Benedict: The Pope who resigned from the papacy 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z He preached a return to Catholic basics: going to Mass, adoring the Virgin Mary and declaring the truth of Christianity against the threat of “relativism,” the idea that all beliefs are equal. Benedict XVI, First Modern Pope to Resign, Dies at 95 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z But such relativism misses the point and is far from the defence that Beijing thinks it is. Does China believe its own propaganda on Uyghurs? 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z Compare and contrast moral pluralism and moral relativism. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Claremont students revered America’s founding, and saw moral relativism and an increasingly powerful government bureaucracy as existential threats. Trump lawyer John Eastman's Jan. 6 notoriety was decades in the making in California 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z Now they also embraced a religiously imbued neo-Victorian moral code, setting themselves in opposition to the permissiveness and moral relativism of the 1960s and 1970s. Review | How the neoliberal order triumphed — and why it’s now crumbling 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z War is a harrowing means of embarrassing the faux sophisticates’ moral relativism, but by doing so, this ill wind has blown some good. Opinion | To avoid nuclear calamity, Biden makes a delicate calibration about Putin 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z She never proselytized in the classroom, she said, but sought to shake the foundations of relativism and encourage students on their search for objective truth, a journey that for her led directly to God. Alice von Hildebrand, Catholic philosopher who criticized moral relativism, dies at 98 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Moral relativism, discussed earlier, is an anti-realist position because it denies that there is an objective or universal justification for moral beliefs. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “Instead, I aim to validate the decisions of each generation through a lens of cultural relativism, releasing them from their fraught categories and broadening the definition of Asian America.” Issaquah High grad wins national contest for portrait of Oregon’s ‘unsung hero’ for Japanese American rights 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Cruz pressured President Biden to “swiftly replenish the Iron Dome missiles” and “lead with clarity on this issue and not moral relativism or appeasement.” Senate Republicans seek to divert Gaza funding to Israel’s Iron Dome 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Charles Hill believed in this goal, which he warned that some liberals and leftists had forsaken in the name of a facile "equality" and cultural relativism. What "politics" does to history: The saga of Henry Kissinger and George Shultz's right-hand man 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z Paradoxically, as “Stowaway” becomes more overtly thrilling, it becomes less interesting, certainly to those of us nerds who are in it for the moral relativism arguments and the cool science. Review: Anna Kendrick is lost, and found, in space in smart sci-fi 'Stowaway' 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z Moral relativism has taken many different shapes throughout the history of philosophy, and it is debated in popular discourses—especially politics and religion—as well as in metaethics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The difference is not necessarily in the moral relativism of the two clubs’ ownership, or even in their respective historical clout, but in their nature. Perfection, Art and Manchester City 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z His core idea, distilled in the notion of cultural relativism, was a radical departure, as unique in its way as was Einstein’s theory of relativity in the discipline of physics. Why Anthropology Matters 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z But they also tend to criticize Pope Francis for an overzealous spirit of inclusion that has opened the church’s doors to relativism and, more literally, fertility statues, which some conservatives threw in the Tiber River. In a Tough Year, a Nativity Scene ‘That Has Had Problems’ 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z In the primordial past — say, the 1980s — it was conservatives who stood against moral relativism. Opinion | Horse-race political analysis is important — and flawed. We need more moral journalism. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Thus anti-realism and moral relativism seem to create insurmountable barriers for overcoming moral disagreements. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z So, hidden in this conceit of a democratic “marketplace of ideas” is a particularly virulent form of relativism that approaches nihilism. Why Doubt Is Essential to Science 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Critically, none of this implied an extreme relativism, as if every human behavior must be accepted simply because it exists. Why Anthropology Matters 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z They are not wrong when they mock cultural relativism, the idea that good and evil, right and wrong, truth and untruth, do not exist. Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett: Another step toward Christian fascism 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Now it is the right that embraces relativism. Opinion | Horse-race political analysis is important — and flawed. We need more moral journalism. 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Since anti-realism is a form of moral skepticism, it can lead not only to relativism but also to pessimism about whether we can resolve moral debates or whether moral reasoning has any legitimacy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z It is a radical relativism, still jarring to many. Quantum paradox points to shaky foundations of reality 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z The brilliance of scientific research, the revelations of modern genetics, has affirmed in an astonishing way both the unity of humanity and the essential wisdom of cultural relativism. Why Anthropology Matters 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z It is part of the sad irony that the Christian right effectively exploits this cultural relativism to seize power. Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett: Another step toward Christian fascism 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Conservatives used to make fun of the left for its penchant for relativism, for arguing that everything depends on context. How COVID-19 could upend geopolitics 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Moral relativism the philosophical position that there are multiple moral frameworks that are equally valid because values are relative to individuals, communities, and cultures. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z "Maybe there will be someone who will say, 'This is religious relativism and it cannot be done," Francis said. Pope’s words on interfaith prayer against coronavirus sparks controversy among Catholics 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z James’s critics for a century have misunderstood his philosophical pragmatism as authorization for whatever is expedient or as simple relativism. Review | Overcoming despair to discover the meaning of life 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z The failure of the liberal Christian church to denounce the Christian right as heretics, in the name of tolerance and cultural relativism, has given the Christian fascists religious legitimacy. Trump's nomination of Amy Coney Barrett: Another step toward Christian fascism 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z In other words, speaking of relativism, the Republican Party has put its trust in a man untethered from reality. How COVID-19 could upend geopolitics 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Philosophers who argue for monism often see pluralism as a type of relativism that can prevent people from resolving moral issues when values come into conflict. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z He says conservatives have long accused liberals of moral relativism, but that the pandemic has cast this charge in a whole new light. Corona conundrum: Finding elusive balance between saving lives and jobs 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But I do think some historical relativism is merited here. Biden’s struggle on assault claim raises doubts 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “Colonisation,” he wrote, “works to decivilise the coloniser, to brutalise him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred and moral relativism.” 'It’s a place where they try to destroy you': why concentration camps are still with us 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z American freedom is not based on relativism; it is based on the belief that the dignity of human beings is a knowable, universal truth. Opinion | Trump spurs a Wild West of continuously worsening political rhetoric 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Moral relativism thus prohibits cultures from judging each other’s value systems. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z This was absolutely an attack on the underlying values of the Enlightenment, an exercise in “deconstruction” and postmodern relativism more sweeping than anything contemplated by Jacques Derrida or his even more indecipherable critics and acolytes. Impeachment, Day One: Republicans weaponize nihilism, defend Trump, destroy reality 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z But because he was prone to framing his decisions in the starkest terms, he instead found his calling speaking out against the dangers of weak leadership and moral relativism in the age of Islamic terrorism. Perspective | One idea has shaped Giuliani’s whole career: Everyone is wrong but me 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The choice is stark, and no amount of confusing the issue with cultural relativism and talk of rudeness to the host can obscure it. Perspective | China is getting exactly what it wants from LeBron James and the NBA: Capitulation 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z If we consider the available scientific evidence, moral relativism may be more widespread than thought. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z At the same time, pluralism is not the same as relativism. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z He did, however, lament the rise of “moral relativism,” which he said public schools were “actively promoting.” Opinion | Is this Barr’s cry for help? 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z As the series progressed, it began to deal with moral relativism, as the orphans commit the same atrocities as their enemies to different ends. Wicked wonder: Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events at 20 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Trump appears to find this kind of moral relativism liberating. Opinion | An American president who doesn’t understand the meaning of America 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Moral relativism has as bad a reputation as any view about morality could. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Bloom attacked both Mead and Benedict, and the notion that teachers who preach cultural relativism are turning American students into unpatriotic nihilists has been a recurrent theme in political rhetoric ever since. How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Further, Boas and his followers promoted the idea of cultural relativism, the idea that prejudices and judgments need to be suspended to better understand others. Review | The social scientists who transformed how we think about race and gender 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Cultural relativism was a theory of human society, but it was also a user’s manual for life. Perspective | The anthropologists who upended the ‘science’ of white supremacy 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Second, inclusive citizenship does not require moral relativism. Review | The message of these ‘civic sermons’: Have faith in your fellow Americans 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Warnings against moral relativism are most often based on theoretical speculation. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z He points out that cultural relativism is the principal target of Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind,” which was published in 1987 and helped launch the culture wars of the ensuing decade. How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z It made headlines by blaming the clerical abuse scandal on the moral relativism of the 1960s sexual revolution, and the “homosexual cliques” that allowed this “lawlessness” to infect seminaries. One church, two popes: why Catholicism is in crisis this Easter | Peter Stanford 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Or a moral relativism that denies one “truth.” What caused the clergy sex abuse crisis? Catholic universities are pushing for debate on the answer. 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z The state shall maintain the separation of church and state, which includes separating itself from the non-institutionalized religions such as secular humanism, expressive individualism and postmodern western individualistic moral relativism. A legislator’s daughter scorned him for sponsoring an anti-LGBT bill. He then called his action a mistake. 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z While this scenario may sound plausible, however, it is important to note that relativism’s effects can only ultimately be determined by relevant studies. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z That may be so, but it has nothing to do with relativism. How Cultural Anthropologists Redefined Humanity 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z I am talking about a certain degree of moral relativism here, yes, but the number of rules we are developing about what can be seen or heard is, frankly, terrifying. Second accuser claims rape by Virginia Lt. Gov. 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Republicans have become much more comfortable with moral relativism for the sake of political advancement while Democrats are engaging in successive purges. Dems grow uneasy with their new moralism 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z “This culture is becoming vulgar. This culture is becoming one, which should not embrace moral relativism,” Justice Kennedy said. Anthony Kennedy warns ‘Culture is becoming vulgar’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z So far, scientific investigations do not support the suspicion that moral relativism is problematic. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The opposition Liberty Korea party voiced “deep regret towards Japan’s intolerant cultural relativism and insular historical awareness”, according to the Korea Herald. BTS should apologise to Japan and Nazi victims, says rabbi 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Thus the notion of 4GW actually contains at its very core the exact same nihilistic relativism that Lind blames on the Frankfurt School. How far-right conspiracy theories about “cultural Marxism” fueled the Pittsburgh massacre 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z George Orwell was one of truth’s Cassandras, but he tended to relate the rise of authoritarianism not to a dogmatic objectivity, but to the advance of relativism. Orwell was right: free speech is important but it is not enough | David Dwan 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Moral relativism is a philosophical belief there is no set of universal moral standards. Anthony Kennedy warns ‘Culture is becoming vulgar’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z For moral relativism to be a potential problem, there must be people who believe in it. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z This is not an “anything goes” relativism, but a recognition that rights, duties and values exist only in actual human cultures, and their exact shape and form will depend on the nature of those situations. About time: why western philosophy can only teach us so much 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z This is not some slogan of radical relativism. A history of substance 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Incoherent as it may be, Orwell worried that relativism was fed by the great “modern disease” of nationalism and the subdivision of the world into discrete and hostile units. Orwell was right: free speech is important but it is not enough | David Dwan 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Michiko Kakutani, the cultural critic and author of “The Death of Truth,” blames the relativism that facilitated Trump’s rise on “academics promoting the gospel of postmodernism.” Perspective | Postmodernism didn’t cause Trump. It explains him. 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Together with initial subsequent studies, this research hence provides initial evidence for moral relativism being quite widespread. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z “The Closing of the American Mind” is a Great Booksist attempt to account for the rise of cultural relativism, which Bloom thought was the bane of American higher education. Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z This is a controversial position within an institution that has often declared itself a bulwark against the moral relativism of modern times. Pope Francis declares death penalty unacceptable: New effort to refocus scandal-plagued church? 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The religious right is caught in bed with a diseased, seeping moral relativism. Opinion | This will never be normal 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z “I realised that the food wasn’t like this because they were bad cooks. My ideas of it were because of my cultural relativism,” he said. For me, heroine Elin Ersson can’t protest too much | Rebecca Nicholson 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z That said, there is also evidence that associates moral relativism with positive behaviors. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z On the other hand, universities are accused of being overwhelmed with trendy political correctness and moral relativism, which pose a fundamental threat to the fabric of the nation and the traditional identities that sustain it. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Moral relativism and its cousin, moral equivalency, are not bugs of the Trump presidency; they are central to its diplomatic philosophy. As a conservative, I despair at Republicans' support for Trump. His vision is not conservatism 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z “Look around,” she wrote, “and there is already a kind of desensitisation to what is happening, a moral relativism that never sees women’s rights as the first rights that are under attack”. Five human rights we should enjoy – while we still can | Van Badham 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z For that matter, relativism has been ascendant since the culture wars began in the 1960s. The death of truth: how we gave up on facts and ended up with Trump 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z Finally, I suspect that in most everyday contexts, relativism’s effects will be simply negligible. Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Look around and there is already a kind of desensitisation to what is happening, a moral relativism that never sees women’s rights as the first rights that are under attack. Fundamentalism is coming for us – and women, as ever, will be first | Suzanne Moore 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z But by making the Christian commitment to human dignity relative to other political aims, Ryan can no longer speak of “moral relativism” as the defining threat of our time. Opinion | Trump exposes the hypocrisy of Christian Republicans 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z His pre-election homily against the “dictatorship of relativism” helped get him the job, and his papacy was considered by many as a last-ditch effort to save Europe and its Christian roots. As Ireland Joins Europe’s Sprint From Catholic Fold, Francis Looks South 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z In recent forums, Ryan has decried “moral relativism” and “tribalism” that he said now infect America’s politics. Trump’s war of attrition against Mueller bears fruit among Republicans 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z So is moral relativism the “biggest problem in America”? Or even a big problem? Is Moral Relativism Really a Problem? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z But it was the Wisconsin congressman’s denunciation of moral relativism that stood out as especially important. Just how concerned is Paul Ryan about 'moral relativism'? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Each new season of the show is a self-contained chapter testing the boundaries of human resilience and moral relativism. The 100 producer Jason Rothenberg breaks down the show’s new season 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z But for opponents it marked the dissolution of family, school and nation, and heralded the future arrival of those modern-day curses: political correctness and moral relativism. Protesters revive ghosts of France's 1968 revolt 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z But some conservative Christians took offense to elements of “A Wrinkle in Time,” including what they saw as relativism. Publishers rejected her, Christians attacked her: The deep faith of ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ author Madeleine L’Engle 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z That was the era that first popularized the grating phrase “speak my truth,” which ironically undermines its own demands to be heard with its implicit relativism. Review | Truth isn’t always as firm as we think it is 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z For those unfamiliar with the phrase, moral relativism is a rejection of the idea that there are core, universal moral standards that should be applied without concern for culture or context. Just how concerned is Paul Ryan about 'moral relativism'? 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z As we discussed after Perkins’ “mulligan” comments, many Christian conservatives appear to have discovered the virtues of moral relativism. This Week in God, 3.10.18 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Such relativism often breeds nihilism, something of which Ball has been accused. Jesse Ball's 'Census' is an understated tale of a father and son taking stock of America 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Could it just be that our relativism about what art is blinds us to the really amazing thing – the skill and perception of the paintings made by Homo sapiens? So Neanderthals made abstract art? This astounding discovery humbles every human 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Additional scandals may erode it further, but regardless, the once morally certain pro-Trump evangelical leaders stand exposed of a shocking cosmopolitan relativism. Opinion | Trump knows everyone has a price 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Let’s instead pause to appreciate the gravity of the religious right movement embracing that which its leaders once ferociously condemned: moral relativism. This Week in God, 1.27.18 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z I don't know what "Liberal cultural relativism" you're going on about, but it wasn't in evidence when I was there earlier this month. Opinion | Trump So Far Is More Farce Than Tragedy 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z The right, suddenly discovering the value of moral relativism, appears to care even less because of conservatives’ marriage of convenience with Trump. When alleged hush money trumps personal improprieties 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Like those works, “Hostiles” is most concerned with moral relativism, showing how Blocker’s viciousness in killing is no different from the “savagery” he detests in Native Americans. “Hostiles” is a bloody depiction of the American frontier 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Unless your neighbors’ relativism includes thinking that it’s right for people to exclude girls from sport programs because their culture thinks they should be excluded, you all believe they’re making a mistake. We Sponsor Refugees. What to Do About Their Patriarchal Ways? 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z How do you tell a story of art that encompasses the entire planet without either producing an incoherent Babel of unconnected images, or a false and fictitious history full of glib relativism? Was there more to Egyptian surrealism than suggestive mosques and rotten meat? 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Indeed, cultural relativism, as any professor of philosophy will tell you, tends to shape how people talk more than how they act, especially in the absence of relevant experience. Opinion | Trump So Far Is More Farce Than Tragedy 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z "If you cannot say definitively, no matter what, that adults creeping on teenage girls is wrong, do not tell me you stand against moral relativism." The Roy Moore controversy is a thorny issue for Alabama Baptists – LA Times 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Uncertainty and doubt are essential elements of any drama, but “Alias Grace” puts relativism at its heart. “Alias Grace”, another triumphant Atwood adaptation 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z “In the academy we get very caught up in relativism and whether we can be objective and so on, and that’s a real argument.” Historians horrified at John Kelly’s Civil War remarks: ‘Strange,’ ‘sad,’ ‘wrong’ 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z They’ve been banished to the limbo reserved for imperfect men and women by cultural relativism, take-no-prisoner ideological interest and a strident political correctness. Opinion | Where Have All Our Heroes Gone? 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z It has been ruined by secularism and moral relativism. Opinion | The issue that is — unfortunately — uniting Americans on the left and the right 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z It follows that secular folk, who are infecting the nation with a terrible spirit of moral relativism, will not fully understand the concept of evil, except in glimmerings when something terrible happens. Horror in Las Vegas polarises the world of religion 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z But Friedman’s “relativism” is a charge that can be thrown at any claim based on human reason. Neoliberalism: the idea that changed the world 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z No. Back to relativism when dealing with KKK, Nazi sympathizers, white supremacists? Republicans Condemn Trump's Latest Charlottesville Remarks 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z That’s why the intelligent conservative has no time either for illiberalism, often of the right, or relativism, typically of the left. Are the news media a bigger threat than Putin’s Russia? 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z This hinted at a shift within the group toward a kind of moral relativism: You do you, and if anything, we’ll just agree to disagree. Thank Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump For the Loss Of the G20's Moral Authority 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Truth is losing its value as society’s reserve currency, and legitimate scepticism is yielding place to pernicious relativism. Ten alternative facts for the post truth world 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z According to the logic of Hayek’s Big Idea, these expressions of human subjectivity are meaningless without ratification by the market – as Friedman said, they are nothing but relativism, each as good as any other. Neoliberalism: the idea that changed the world 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. O’Reilly remained the star he is by railing against “moral relativism” of liberals who he said encourage people to play the “victim” instead of taking “personal responsibility” for their own decisions. Can Bill O’Reilly Keep His Scold’s Perch? 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Truss foresaw an age of “hair-trigger sensitivity” and “lazy moral relativism combined with aggressive social insolence.” Opinion | The ‘alternative facts’ epidemic goes way beyond politics 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z That diagnosis seemed accurate to many people, and it seemed to point toward a culture of easygoing relativism. Guilt, victimhood and moral indignation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z In this approach, the very possibility of truth is undermined by philosophies of relativism and reductionism. Opinion | The tribal truths that set the stage for Trump’s lies 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z There is the market, in other words, and there is relativism. Neoliberalism: the idea that changed the world 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z This type of relativism — this neutrality between freedom and authoritarianism — is easily imported across the border. Opinion | The terrible consequences of abandoning American exceptionalism 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Cultural relativism and the pretence that they are making a charitable intervention is supposed to mask a commitment to enforcing their sense of morality elsewhere. The return of the global gag rule stinks of neocolonialism | Lola Okolosie 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z What Sokal exposed was — and remains — radical relativism that asserts the impossibility of serious science and scholarship. The hilarious hoax that should have taught the academy a lesson 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Ultimately, a bottomless relativism can creep in: tenuous interpretations held up by webs of other interpretations, each strung from still more interpretations. Neanderthals Were People, Too 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z But in the past few decades, the party of Davos — with its globalism, relativism, pluralism and diversity — has sapped away the moral foundations of this Judeo-Christian way of life. Bannon’s battle for hearts and minds 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Back in the 1990s, conservatives called this moral relativism Slouching Towards Gomorrah. Donald Trump didn't save the ethics committee. You did | Richard Wolffe 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Without resorting to easy moral relativism, the series also incorporates multiple viewpoints on each situation, encouraging the viewer to understand, if not necessarily empathize, with abductor as well as abductee. The Netflix documentary series 'Captive' takes a gripping look at hostage crises across the globe 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z We are in a time of extraordinary relativism, when the incoming president was sued for fraud by 7,000 different people and this was not seen as a disqualifying fact. The years of calm are over. In Donald Trump we’ll have a child at the White House | Dave Eggers 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z More radical forms of relativism are often denounced as undermining basic values. Post-truth: a guide for the perplexed 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z First, FGC is often seen as a challenge to moral relativism — the claim that cultures have different, but equally worthy, moralities2, 3. Social science: Female genital cutting under the spotlight : Nature : Nature Research 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Many of the blue-collar workers felt ignored by Democrats who promoted an economic globalization that undercut their jobs and a cultural relativism, such as gay marriage that undermined their values. 4 Reasons Why Americans Have Lost Trust in the Government 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z For ordinary Americans, traditional religion was a bulwark against the moral relativism of the modern age. Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z After this bout of relativism, agrees Mr Moore—who opposes Hillary Clinton as well—old-school evangelists who invoke moral character will seem like “political hacks.” Absalom’s revenge 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Such statistics seem to validate Trump’s theory of factual relativism. Donald Trump's Post-Truth Debate 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z He also condemned “cultural relativism, the biggest disease in Europe today.” Inside Milo’s “gays for Trump,” virulently anti-Islam party at the RNC 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z "Such a victory would be good for Europe. America and Europe are threatened by the same danger of cultural relativism and Islam." European politicians wary on Republican convention over Trump 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z In his very first homily, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the relativism, the lack of common moral language in the modern world. Truthiness, Trumpiness and the gut 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z It’s whether the West can recognize that the moral nihilism of today’s Jihadi Johns is the logical outgrowth of the moral relativism that is the default religion of today’s West. Islam and the Radical West 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Bernardi raised concerns in the Coalition party room that it “indoctrinates kids with Marxist cultural relativism” and said parts were inappropriate for young children. Mardi Gras 2016: Sydney marchers 'building a rainbow nation' – live 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Many of the attacks on the moral relativism of the ’60s reprised attacks on the multiculturalism of the Roaring Twenties. Why conservatives start culture wars and liberals win them 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Examine the young people who have rejected the relativism of liberal society in favour of fierce doctrine, and they do not seem committed to robust values of any sort. Society needs to find shared values again | Cristina Odone 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z “We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definite and whose ultimate goal consists of one’s own ego and desires.” Truthiness, Trumpiness and the gut 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Despite increased consciousness among surgeons of aesthetic relativism, there is no avoiding the obduracy of each surgeon’s perspective. Does a nose job hurt? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Virginia Blum 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Bernardi raised concerns in the Coalition party room that it “indoctrinates kids with Marxist cultural relativism” and said parts were inappropriate for young children. Mardi Gras 2016: Sydney marchers 'building a rainbow nation' – live 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, he objected to what he saw as an element of ideological relativism on which détente was predicated. “Ideological self-confidence and ruthless power politics”: Neo-conservatives, Charles Krauthammer and the real legacy of Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z But the previous pope, Benedict, said in 2010 that the curse of moral relativism had clouded the judgment of the clergy in the 70s. Bill Cosby, Sex Abuse and That 70s Excuse 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Willed indifference to the niqab is more than tolerance; it is an endorsement of gender-rights relativism in our national home—equality for our women, inferior status for theirs.” Freedom and the Veil 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z But this is a case where cultural relativism should be rejected. Bryce Harper criticism in Papelbon scuffle is off base and out of date 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Benedict frequently decried moral relativism and Europe's loss of its Christian roots. With Pope Francis, Catholicism has a new brand -- an everyman's pope 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Another part of the problem is a general lack of civility in society, which can lead to “ethical relativism,” according to Steve Mintz, founder of the consulting firm Workplace Ethics Advice. Editorials from around New England 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Mercy is not the same as moral relativism. Disagreement is not discrimination 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z A Pope Center research paper published this year describes a “renewal in the university” through privately funded programs dedicated to teaching the great books untainted by relativism. New Politics at the University of North Carolina 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z On the one hand, he champions cultural relativism by arguing that “history declared its independence from biology” at the time of the prehistoric Cognitive Revolution. Our kind of people 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z It isn’t quite true that nobody believes in anything and nobody trusts the experts, as in the rootless world of moral relativism feared by conservatives. Anti-vaxxers are not the enemy: Science, politics and the crisis of authority 2015-02-07T05:00:00Z Ethical relativism is the belief that nothing is objectively right or wrong; it depends on the prevailing view of a particular individual, culture, or historical period, Mintz wrote on his website. Editorials from around New England 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z “The biggest disease we have faced in the last decades in Europe is cultural relativism, the idea by liberals and leftist politicians that all cultures are equal. They are not,” he told me. Geert Wilders: The ‘Prophet’ Who Hates Muhammad Clear thoughts, no politically correct relativism and to the point. Flocking to Buy Charlie Hebdo, Citizens Signal Their Support of Free Speech 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The moral relativism of Mr. Carter’s actions against innocent citizens of our enemy, compared with Cuba and North Korea employing hunger against those they deem enemies, is striking. Jimmy Carter’s blind spot 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z “Moral relativism” long has been one of the favorite conservative charges against liberals. Dick Cheney and Antonin Scalia Dismiss Moral High Ground in Torture Debate 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Condemning “the push for relativism, for globalization, for environmental agendas, the green agendas and tolerance for everybody,” Hice lambasted public schools as sinister hotbeds of radicalism. GOP congressional candidate: Public schools remind me of Nazi Germany 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z An innocent man is about to be carved up in front of him: so much for moral relativism. Reading group: searching for meaning in Kafka 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Cultural relativism – that deems democracy is only appropriate for some cultures – is inherently racist, effectively claiming that some people are incapable of ruling their own societies. Hong Kong protesters remind us why democracy is worth fighting for 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z They prominently display products and a lifestyle of betrayal, moral relativism and sex, sex, sex in television programs. REBECCA HAGELIN: Healthy media habits make for a healthy family 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Anyone who embraces this viewpoint can no longer bemoan moral relativism. Dick Cheney and Antonin Scalia Dismiss Moral High Ground in Torture Debate 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z But more than anything, the panelists stressed, liberalism is an idea, and a deadly one at that: a Janus-faced monster of moral relativism and authoritarianism. How DC's conservative elite view liberals 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Then Ryan essentially accuses Wilsonian progressivism of inventing moral relativism, a term he doesn’t bother using. Paul Ryan's American Idea is Mad Libs with a thesaurus full of conservative lies 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z They uphold standards of excellence and a respect for the best of our civilisation, and are a bulwark against relativism, vulgar populism and the dumbing down of literate culture. Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Conservative Muslims would be no different from conservative Catholics looking to escape from moral and cultural relativism. 'Trojan horse' scandal - extreme or diverse? 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z We need to distinguish this allowance for complexity and disagreement from two other concerns – moral relativism and situational morality. Dick Cheney and Antonin Scalia Dismiss Moral High Ground in Torture Debate 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z She added, “It is scary to consider that religious relativism may be the greatest threat that exists to the increasingly important Hispanic Catholic community.” Religion in America: Even as Hispanics Lift Catholicism, They’re Leaving It 2014-05-07T14:01:17Z But we need to be clear: neurodiversity does not equate to relativism. I Have Asperger's, and My Mum Says My Brain Works Differently. How So? 2014-04-25T17:30:00Z Zip up your lips and define journalistic facts with political relativism. Finlandization Is Not a Perfect Recipe for Ukraine 2014-03-21T18:27:48Z "It is a war marked by political opportunism, biblical fundamentalism and a clash between cultural relativism and universal human rights." Jane Goodall: China exploits Africa 2014-02-24T20:30:00Z And that means Mr. Abbott, whose roots as a Roman Catholic seminarian eschew moral relativism, could struggle to justify the ethics of doing business with China’s authoritarian government. Australia’s New Leader May Find Governing Harder Than Criticizing 2013-09-09T10:38:02Z Our country is in real trouble when citizens support this kind of power-driven relativism. Joe Klein: Republicans Chasing Their Tails on Benghazi 2013-05-08T16:05:22Z That considering other peaceful and charitable faiths to be as valid as their own isn’t some spiritually milquetoast surrender to relativism—that on the contrary, it’s precisely what a peaceful and charitable faith demands. Viewpoint: Does Pope Francis' Outreach to Non-Catholics Signal Deeper Reform? 2013-03-23T09:50:22Z We must confront the moral relativism that views all forms of government as equally acceptable and thereby consigns whole societies to slavery. Obama’s speech in Israel versus Bush’s speech 2013-03-22T10:02:00Z Political dictatorship may be over, but the “dictatorship of relativism” deplored by emeritus Pope Benedict is alive and kicking in an increasingly secular Argentina. Viewpoint: New Shepherd, Same Wondering Flock 2013-03-14T18:31:37Z One of the themes he often returned to was the threat of relativism, rejecting the concept that moral values are not absolute but relative to those holding them. Benedict: a conservative whose papacy was dogged by scandal 2013-02-11T14:37:53Z I do not believe that cultural relativism provides an excuse to opt-out of our shared liberal social settlement. Cultural 'pick-and-mix' warning 2013-02-06T10:53:55Z While this seems like a good idea on the surface, it's a viper's nest of ethical questions when you dig deeper, throwing up a broader debate about the idea of universal values and cultural relativism. Can Googling be racist? 2013-02-05T13:00:51Z Tasteless Facebook users engaged in a perverse relativism to say that hundreds of people die every day in Africa because of poverty. Op-Ed Contributor: After the Brazil Nightclub Fire 2013-01-31T01:50:40Z If you are leading troops into battle, you must be exemplary–and fraternizing with an officer of lower rank raises questions of favoritism and moral relativism that can’t be tolerated. Klein: Two Ways to Look at David Petraeus 2012-12-11T22:05:24Z "Nor should we allow equality laws to open the door to moral relativism and reduce established religion to the equivalent status of any other belief." Papers absorb Hillsborough report 2012-09-13T04:58:37Z That there is a cultural relativism that leads them to excuse what is being done to other people's daughters when they would never allow it to be done to their own. Cultural 'pick-and-mix' warning 2013-02-06T10:53:55Z “European nations are dissolving socially at the same time as they’re losing their Christian essence in favor of general relativism.” French Essayist Blames Multi-Culturalism for Norway Massacre 2012-08-28T23:05:23Z Multiculturalism hasn't been about the therapeutic validation of identities or about sanctioning relativism. Labour can make the most of a Britain alive with Olympic spirit 2012-08-18T23:09:00Z Inspired by respect for diversity, fear of "cultural imperialism" and a kind of democratic relativism, for some time it was considered arrogant to judge the morality of others. Why morality is fashionable again 2012-07-24T19:00:04Z The subsequent pervasion of moral relativism created an atmosphere that made people uncomfortable passing judgement on crooks, he says. Jack Abramoff on CNN: Why does US TV book bad guys? 2012-07-08T00:30:10Z What about the association of his ideas with scientific relativism? A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy as "The Paradigm Shift" Turns 50 2012-04-27T18:15:02.480Z All subjectivism, all relativism, all criticism, therefore, are baffled in presence of the ego. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z And the fear of modernity and relativism that has come with globalization has been a spur to fundamentalism of various sorts.” On Religion: Santorum?s Catholicism Draws Evangelicals 2012-03-23T22:27:57Z “I slipped into a world of relativism where the ends were justifying any means,” he said. DealBook: Hedge Fund Manager Is Sentenced to 5 Years 2011-11-18T23:22:50Z “I allowed myself to slip into the world of relativism where the ends justify the means.” Ex-FrontPoint Fund Manager Skowron Gets Five Years in Prison 2011-11-18T19:15:01Z There's a long and complicated story of the rise of a desire for scientific relativism. A Q&A with Ian Hacking on Thomas Kuhn's Legacy as "The Paradigm Shift" Turns 50 2012-04-27T18:15:02.480Z This result suggests that moral relativism might be especially appealing to people who have a tendency to vividly imagine alternative possibilities. Are You a Moral Relativist? Take This Test to Find Out 2011-11-08T12:45:08.727Z Therefore, making moral judgments about all meat eating is a form of ethnocentric relativism. A vegetarian's guide to talking to carnivores 2011-08-24T17:01:00Z The conspiracy theorists of the far right are wrong when they accuse secular humanists of moral relativism -- but at least some secular humanists like Kurtz really do believe in world government. Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes 2011-08-23T11:01:00Z Discussions of moral relativism came long before the idea of a multiverse, of course. Learn to Forgive Yourself in a Parallel Universe 2011-07-21T22:45:00.983Z The logical result of such a position is a radical moral relativism vis-à-vis various cultural anthropologies. The Stone: Are There Natural Human Rights? 2011-05-29T21:31:13Z These are but a few of the erroneous currents of modern relativism. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z But you know how we're constantly being told how the Democrats are the party of no consequences, no personal responsibility and crippling moral relativism? Right-wingers dodge responsibility 2011-01-13T01:30:00Z Notwithstanding conservatives who claim that secular humanists are relativists, humanists of the Kurtz school are defenders of the Enlightenment and hostile to postmodern intellectual and moral relativism. Secular humanists on the real planet of the apes 2011-08-23T11:01:00Z It showed dangerous relativism on the part of the president. Class of its own? 2010-12-24T11:01:24Z The end result will not be the universalism that is needed to fend off moral relativism. The Stone: Are There Natural Human Rights? 2011-05-29T21:31:13Z That kind of loosey-goosey moral relativism might sound good after your third or fourth shot. City Critic: One Suit, Many Kringles? Not in Santaland 2010-12-19T00:53:59Z I've also got ideas for books on moral relativism as well as democracy and human nature. The Way I Work: Daniel Lubetzky of Kind 2010-12-01T17:00:00Z The most compelling strand in “The Moral Landscape” is its unspooling diatribe against relativism. Science Knows Best 2010-10-01T15:45:00Z It was to be a training ground for Christians and a bulwark against moral relativism. 2010-02-11T20:23:00Z As he put it at the time, they were “drowned in relativism, concepts of distributive justice and redistribution of wealth.” 2010-01-30T23:50:00Z Relativism and scepticism have been perenially associated, but relativism is not a nihilistic, but a deeply realistic philosophy; it is just the sceptic's natural realism. The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Yet it was to a non-temporal intuition that the immediate successors of Kant turned, in order to escape from the Kantian relativism. Creative Evolution The close connection between the former and relativism is evident, and the form of egoism most consistent with epistemological relativism is to be found among those same Sophists who first maintained this latter doctrine. The Approach to Philosophy Consequently, every real Knowledge has something sub specie aeternitatis as its essence, and this differentiates it from all mere relativism. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy Let us first consider an example of cultural relativism. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy If this one exception is granted, the whole illusory universe of relativism is overthrown. Outspoken Essays Be that as it may, it is the confusion of two kinds of order that lies behind the relativism of the moderns, as it lay behind the dogmatism of the ancients. Creative Evolution But a type of ethics still further removed from the initial relativism has been adopted and more or less successfully assimilated by subjectivistic philosophies. The Approach to Philosophy Absolute relativism, which is neither more nor less than scepticism, in the most modern sense of the term, is the supreme triumph of the reasoning reason. Tragic Sense Of Life The former view is relativism, the latter is absolutism, in the matter of truth. Pragmatism The advent of moral relativism has taught us that "right" and "wrong" are flexible, context dependent and culture-sensitive yardsticks. Crime and Corruption There is a strong sense of relativism in science, an appropriate self- doubt in humanistic discourse, and an appropriate understanding of the multiplicity and open-endedness in almost every aspect of our social and political life. The Civilization of Illiteracy A sceptical relativism is the earliest phase of subjectivism, and its avoidance at once becomes the most urgent problem of any philosophy which proposes to proceed forth from this principle. The Approach to Philosophy The inevitable consequence is that we imprison ourselves hopelessly in the affirmation of Kantian relativism. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson The need of avoiding the relativism of empirical idealism is evident. The Approach to Philosophy |
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