Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are...

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...

Moral relativism or ethical relativism (often reformulated as relativist ethics or relativist morality) is used to describe several philosophical positions...

Factual relativism (also called epistemic relativism, epistemological relativism, alethic relativism, and cognitive relativism) argues that truth is relative...

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...

Depending on the variety of moral relativism, these statements may be indexed to a particular society (i.e., cultural relativism, when I say stealing is wrong...

discovered, as opposed to relativism, which asserts that all facts are relative to one's perspective. Absolutism and relativism have been explored at length...

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...

weaker argument stronger". Protagoras is credited with the philosophy of relativism, which he discussed in his lost work, Truth (also known as Refutations)...

experience and conceptualize the world. Yet another is relativist (cultural relativism), which sees different cultural groups as employing different conceptual...

Moral universalism is the opposing position to various forms of moral relativism. Universalist theories are generally forms of moral realism, though exceptions...

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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researchers involved are open-minded and consciously willing to recognize relativism as a possible outcome—because the universalist conclusion is guaranteed...

of Western culture from perceived threats posed by communism and moral relativism. American conservatives tend to question epidemiology, climate change...

Aesthetic relativism is the idea that views of beauty are relative to differences in perception and consideration, and intrinsically, have no absolute...

Konstruktivismus: Beiträge des 38. Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums [Realism – Relativism – Constructivism: Contributions of the 38th International Wittgenstein...

potentially realist) relativism. Joyce, Richard (2016), "Moral Anti-Realism (Supplement on Moral Objectivity and Moral Relativism)", in Zalta, Edward N...

counter the increased secularisation of many Western countries. He viewed relativism's denial of objective truth, and the denial of moral truths in particular...

happening slowly Hallin's spheres – Theory of media objectivity Moral relativism – Philosophical positions about the differences in moral judgments across...

Such ethnographers and their students promoted the idea of "cultural relativism", the view that one can only understand another person's beliefs and behaviors...

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...

different—views of reality, creating an atmosphere of testing, empathy, and relativism. As Helen Cooper says, "Different genres give different readings of the...

The debate on the causes of clerical child abuse is a major aspect of the academic literature surrounding Catholic sex abuse cases. In 2010, Pope Benedict...

rationality. Critics allege that its premises lead to a nihilistic form of relativism. In this sense, it has become a term of abuse in popular culture. "Postmodernism"...

The obesity paradox is the finding in some studies of a lower mortality rate for overweight or obese people within certain subpopulations. The paradox...

universalism versus relativism lies in who is claiming to represent a particular culture. Although the argument between universalism and relativism is far from...

incommensurate and irreconcilable, then the situation is one of cultural relativism and would therefore incur the standard criticisms from philosophical realists...

relativist fallacy that portray it as identical to relativism (e.g., linguistic relativism or cultural relativism) are themselves committing a commonly identified...

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...