• Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are...
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  • Cultural relativism is the position that there is no universal standard to measure cultures by, and that all cultural values and beliefs must be understood...
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  • Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several philosophical positions...
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  • Factual relativism (also called epistemic relativism, epistemological relativism, alethic relativism, and cognitive relativism) argues that truth is relative...
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    Postmodernism embraces self-referentiality, epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism. It opposes the...
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  • specific moral codes. Relativism is opposite to Universalism because there is not a single moral code for every agent to follow. Relativism differs from Nihilism...
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  • Ethical subjectivism is a completely distinct concept from moral relativism. Moral relativism claims that statements are true or false based on who is saying...
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  • Moralities: A Defense of Pluralistic Relativism is a 2006 book by David B. Wong that defends a version of moral relativism. The book was reviewed by Christopher...
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  • discovered, as opposed to relativism, which asserts that all facts are relative to one's perspective. Absolutism and relativism have been explored at length...
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  • Aesthetic relativism is the idea that views of beauty are relative to differences in perception and consideration, and intrinsically, have no absolute...
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  • Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity is a 1996 book by Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson, in which Harman tries to provide a defense of moral...
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    weaker argument stronger". Protagoras is credited with the philosophy of relativism, which he discussed in his lost work, Truth (also known as Refutations)...
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    counter the increased secularisation of many Western countries. He viewed relativism's denial of objective truth, and the denial of moral truths in particular...
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    Metaethical Moral Relativism Dreier 2007, pp. 240–241 DeLapp, § 4b. Moral Relativisms Gowans 2021, § 6. Metaethical Moral Relativism Dreier 2007, p. 241...
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  • experience and conceptualize the world. Yet another is relativist (cultural relativism), which sees different cultural groups as employing different conceptual...
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  • Moral universalism is the opposing position to various forms of moral relativism. Universalist theories are generally forms of moral realism, though exceptions...
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  • analyses of relativism, particularly on cognitive relativism. Meiland is also known for a "salvage operation" from the "paradox of relativism", the claim...
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    Functionalism Objectivism Subjectivism Normativity Absolutism Particularism Relativism Nihilism Skepticism Universalism Ontology Action Event Process Reality...
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    Such ethnographers and their students promoted the idea of "cultural relativism", the view that one can only understand another person's beliefs and behaviors...
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  • incommensurate and irreconcilable, then the situation is one of cultural relativism and would therefore incur the standard criticisms from philosophical realists...
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  • potentially realist) relativism. Joyce, Richard (2016), "Moral Anti-Realism (Supplement on Moral Objectivity and Moral Relativism)", in Zalta, Edward N...
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  • related to various terms. It is sometimes equated with agnosticism and relativism. However, there are slight differences in meaning. Agnosticism is often...
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    universalism versus relativism lies in who is claiming to represent a particular culture. Although the argument between universalism and relativism is far from...
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    for a little. Comfort zone Creeping normality Hallin's spheres Moral relativism Opinion corridor Giridharadas, Anand (21 November 2019). "How America's...
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  • that relativism about truth must be applied to itself. The cruder form of the argument concludes that since the relativist is calling relativism an absolute...
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  • researchers involved are open-minded and consciously willing to recognize relativism as a possible outcome—because the universalist conclusion is guaranteed...
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  • The obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. The paradox...
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  • Konstruktivismus: Beiträge des 38. Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums [Realism – Relativism – Constructivism: Contributions of the 38th International Wittgenstein...
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    There have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church. In the late 20th and...
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  • anthropological axiom "cultural relativism" (that is, that cultural meaning derives from a context) and to the term "moral relativism" (that is, that moral and...
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