The Truth about Relativism
Author | : Joseph Margolis |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Cultural relativism |
ISBN | : 9780631179115 |
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Author | : Joseph Margolis |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Cultural relativism |
ISBN | : 9780631179115 |
Author | : Herman Cappelen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2009-01-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199560552 |
Cappelen and Hawthorne present a powerful critique of fashionable relativist accounts of truth, and the foundational ideas in semantics on which the new relativism draws. They argue compellingly that the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth and falsity.
Author | : Paul K. Moser |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780195131307 |
This volume is devoted solely to the topic of moral relativism. The 19 contemporary selections are nontechnical and fall under five main headings which include general issues of moral relativism, moral diversity, the coherence of moral relativism, and relativism, realism, and rationality.
Author | : Joseph Margolis |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780631181781 |
Author | : Stefanick Chris |
Publisher | : Catholic Answers |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781933919461 |
Welcome to the new tyranny "If it feels good, do it." "That's your opinion, and this is mine." "I don't want to impose my beliefs on others." And thus the Dictator of Relativism speaks as he has always spoken to seduce humanity into a false sense of freedom. Pope Benedict XVI, Christ's personally chosen defender of the Truth is fighting back. He recognized this in his homily on April 18, 2005, "We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires." Through a down-to-earth, easily accessible Question-and-Answer format, Stefanick's book shows: Why relativism inherently contradicts its own claims. What makes it one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. How relativism has a direct influence on the morals and virtues of a nation. Why relativism doesn't even work "in real life." How relativism is counterproductive to the true practice of tolerance Why religion which makes claims to absolute truth is finally more tolerant than relativism. What Christianity has almost singlehandedly done to foster true tolerance in the world. How all laws legislate morality What the true meaning of "open-minded" means it's not what you think!
Author | : Manuel García-Carpintero |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2008-08-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199234957 |
Relative Truth examines a question which has become the focus of one of the liveliest debates in philosophy: whether truth is relative to standards of taste, values, or subjective informational states. Specially written papers by leading figures, together with a helpful introduction, make this book the starting-point for future work.
Author | : Carol Rovane |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-12-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674726979 |
Relativism is a hotly contested doctrine among philosophers, some of whom regard it as neither true nor false but simply incoherent. As Carol Rovane demonstrates in this analytical tour-de-force, the way to defend relativism is not initially by establishing its truth but by clarifying its content. The Metaphysics and Ethics of Relativism elaborates a doctrine of relativism that has a consistent logical, metaphysical, and practical significance. Relativism is worth debating, Rovane contends, because it bears directly on the moral choices we make in our lives. Three intuitive conceptions of relativism have been influential in philosophical discourse. These include the idea that certain unavoidable disagreements are irresolvable, leading to the conclusion that "both sides are right," and the idea that truth is always relative to context. But the most compelling, Rovane maintains, is the "alternatives intuition." Alternatives are truths that cannot be embraced together because they are not universal. Something other than logical contradiction excludes them. When this is so, logical relations no longer hold among all truth-value-bearers. Some truths will be irreconcilable between individuals even though they are valid in themselves. The practical consequence is that some forms of interpersonal engagement are confined within definite boundaries, and one has no choice but to view what lies beyond those boundaries with what Rovane calls "epistemic indifference." In a very real sense, some people inhabit different worlds--true in themselves, but closed off to belief from those who hold irreducibly incompatible truths.
Author | : J. David Velleman |
Publisher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2015-11-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1783740329 |
In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J. David Velleman shows that different communities can indeed be subject to incompatible moralities, because their local mores are rationally binding. At the same time, he explains why the mores of different communities, even when incompatible, are still variations on the same moral themes. The book thus maps out a universe of many moral worlds without, as Velleman puts it, "moral black holes”. The six self-standing chapters discuss such diverse topics as online avatars and virtual worlds, lying in Russian and truth-telling in Quechua, the pleasure of solitude and the fear of absurdity. Accessibly written, this book presupposes no prior training in philosophy.
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Author | : William Gairdner |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0773574697 |
A lively challenge to postmodern opinion that reveals satisfying and reliable certainties.