RELATIVISM. The term relativism is applied to ethical, cultural, and religious views. Relativism contends that such views are to be evaluated relative to the societies or cultures in which they appear and are not to be judged true or false, or good or...

. Any doctrine could be called relativism which holds that something exists, or has certain properties or features, or is true or in some sense obtains, not simply but only in relation to something else. Some form of relativism seems plausible for...

To define relativism is, of necessity, to take a position in the controversy surrounding it. This is because, as †Geertz (1984) has suggested, relativism, especially in its oft-derided ‘epistemological’ form, has become one of those...

1. One who regards all knowledge as relative. 2. A learning style in which the learner seeks to assess all knowledge within its...

Relativism is the idea that some element or aspect of experience or culture is relative to, i.e., dependent on, some other element or aspect. Some relativists claim that humans can understand and evaluate beliefs and behaviors only in terms of their...

CULTURAL RELATIVISM has come in for some severe criticism in these pages of late. In fact, anything which even hints at postmodernism seems to get rather a hard time of it in Quadrant, and most often for good reason. But as much fun...

Editor, New Era: Almost daily I have read letters in your paper sent from outraged Christians and non-Christians alike, everyone ready to either coronate or crucify Harry Potter and his entourage. But after the letters concerning the Penryn Fire Police, I finally...

En garde!A piece of treacherous language has made its way into our public discourse. Where once words such as "religion," "Christianity" and "Judaism" were heard, public figures now speak of "persons of faith" or "people of faith," "the faith community" and "faith-based." Moreover, anything "faith-based"...

A conservative German governor said Saturday he regretted any "misunderstanding" about his eulogy of a colleague with a Nazi past, but stopped short of withdrawing his remarks.Baden-Wuerttemberg governor Guenther Oettinger has faced growing criticism for describing his predecessor, Hans Filbinger, as "an opponent of the...

A description of the philosophy of relativism as well the related theories of solipsism and social constructivism.