There are two replies the relativist can make here. One is to say that the absolutist about truth is assuming what they are ...

Relativist or absolutist? Let's work through the possibilities. It may seem at first that the answer cannot be determined, but consider the possible colors of the third block.

Now there are at least two ways to be a moral relativist. You can agree that different cultures have different moral values and that there is not a single universal moral that is shared by all ...

Home Politics Opinion Who are you calling a moral relativist? Both liberals and conservatives use this phrase as an insult. But the truth is that hardly anyone practices genuine moral relativism.

The relativist frame of mind, though, is not a creation of the late twentieth century. It was the target of some of Plato’s most impressive writings. Indeed, Socrates’s celebrated rebuttal, the ...

Rmmmm, of Master Benedict's "dictatorship of reletavism," the source have I located: ANAKIN: The Jedi use their power for good. PALPATINE: Good is a point ...

In this way, the relativist position becomes emancipating. It means I'm free to think what I think because I'm not going to wait for a consensus of the whole world, of every form of life, every ...

Finally, if I am a moral relativist for celebrating the morality of individuality, then so is every anti-collectivist that has ever lived a moral relativist—including God.

Quick takes, analyses and macro-level views on all contemporary economic, financial and political events. When the Republican nominee in the ongoing US presidential race Donald Trump says ...