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Showing posts with label cultural relativism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cultural relativism. Show all posts
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Relativism and moral noncontroversies

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When we ask whether morals are relative, we often look at very difficult issues like abortion and say that there is a good deal to be said o...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Relativism and Human Rights

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Relativism is incompatible with an idea that many of us hold dear, the idea of inalienable human rights. If relativism is true, we are endow...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Changing reactions to Shirley Jackson's The Lottery

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Are we losing the battle against student relativism? This report, by Lydia McGrew, isn't very encouraging.
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Sunday, June 07, 2009

Cultural Relativism and the Catholic Frat Boy

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If what is right is what "my society" approves of, what if I live in many societies. A Catholic frat boy is part of one social gro...
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I am the author of C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: In Defense of the Argument from Reason, published by Inter-Varsity Press. I received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989.
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