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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"relativism"”.
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Moral relativism and reasons for action
There are many varieties of moral relativism. Appraiser relativism, according to which the proposition expressed by a moral sentence varies from context to context, is motivated by the thought that it provides the best explanation of the intractability of fundamental moral disagreements. In …
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Postmodern philosophy, relativism, and a renewed vision of education
… and rationality, postmodern philosophy invokes relativism in which the contingent, hermeneutical, and historical nature of human knowledge and rationality is emphasized.
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Towards the Development of a Belief in Moral Relativism Scale
Although moral relativism has a long history in the philosophical tradition, the study of psychological, individual differences in the construct has occurred only recently. In both philosophy and psychology the construct has been defined in a variety of ways that often differ from one other. While …
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Relativism in Democracy. Response to a new form of political theology
… religious discourse primarily focused on 'moral relativism' as the principal 'threat' confronting contemporary democratic societies. In the first homily he gave as Pope, for example, Benedict XVI famously denounced a 'dictatorship of relativism' as the most urgent social and political problem of …
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Cultural Relativism in the Age of Modernity: Are Human Rights Still up for Debate?
… of modernity while rejecting others. Cultural relativism is often the reason for their rejection of human rights but sometimes it is just an excuse. China, Ghana, Iran and Japan all have embraced the modern international community as far as economics and global markets. However, some of these …
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A Critical Analysis of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Problems of Knowledge-Legitimation (Strong Programme, Rational Reconstruction, Relativism, Symmetry Thesis)
… of Barnes and Bloor, the empirical programme of relativism of Collins, and the ethnographic case studies of Knorr-Cetina, Latour and Woolgar, and Lynch. Recent criticisms of these authors are also examined at length.
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Universal human rights standards in a multi-cultural world:cultural relativism, a challenge to the realisation of universal human rights, especially those of women
This present study is a recognition of the important place that human rights have come to occupy in both national and international affairs. Indeed the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has echoed that the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the …
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Universal human rights standards in a multi-cultural world:cultural relativism, a challenge to the realisation of universal human rights, especially those of women
This present study is a recognition of the important place that human rights have come to occupy in both national and international affairs. Indeed the Preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has echoed that the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the …
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The role of language in constructing consciousness in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
… of linguistic determinism -- Linguistic relativism -- Sociopolitics, oppression, and language.
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The Objective Pluralism of Isaiah Berlin A Historical Approach to Ethical and Political Philosophy
… as amounting in fact to ethical and political relativism. Berlin has relied on two arguments in attempting to refute this charge, those from common intelligibility and from shared values. I propose that the former argument alone is sufficient to refute relativism, whilst the latter argument …
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Aspects of culture in South African psychiatry
… to legitimate apartheid. The concept of cultural relativism, though often associated with liberal views internationally, is linked with state policies in South Africa. Some South African social scientists, therefore, strongly question the notion of relativism. This reaction unfortunately does not …
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Nothing to disagree about: Aristotle, Newton, and the existence of void as seen through a Kuhnian lens
… susceptibility to the charge of epistemological relativism. To combat the charge, I develop an ontology and theory of cognition that can support the Kuhnian thesis without requiring one who prefers the view to accept a strong form of scientific relativism (i.e., scientific subjectivism). …
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Nietzsche's perspectivism and the revaluation of values
… standpoint and whether perspectivism leads to relativism. I argue that Nietzsche’s revaluation project is not jeopardized because the revaluation of all values occurs only as a consequence of revaluing morality. In addressing relativism, I argue that Nietzsche is a moral skeptic, not a moral …
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Rhetoric and Time: Cognition, Culture, and Interaction
… in decision-making, neo-Whorfian linguistic relativism, pragmatic theories of interaction and inferential processing, and cross-cultural research are emerging methodologies for enhancing contemporary understanding of high-stakes rhetoric. As a unified framework they can provide strategic …
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Essays in the philosophy of psychiatry
… clear refutations of labeling theory or cultural relativism, I point out the serious disadvantages of holding either view. I argue that in the absence of compelling reasons to endorse either labeling theory or cultural relativism, we are within our rights to remain realists about psychiatric …
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The role of ethics in employee behavior
… behavior (CWB). It was hypothesized that ethical relativism moderates these two relationships. Self-report data was collected among 108 employees of a southeastern manufacturing company through a series of surveys. Correlational and moderated regression analyses were used to test the hypotheses. …
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Thinking as a Mere Citizen of the World: Kantian Morality in a Pluralist Frame
… appropriate limits of toleration. While moral relativism can be seen as a natural entailment of cultural pluralism, the kind of moral theory that the pluralist needs cannot be provided by relativism. I argue that there is good reason for the cultural pluralist to consider Kantian morality as a …
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Thinking for yourself: A more personal and particular approach to Kantian ethics
… morality that it will lead to the sort of moral relativism that can justify anything. The key, then, is to develop a method for applying the universality test that enables us to come to firm conclusions about particular cases without forcing us to generalize those conclusions to contexts where we …
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