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Truth, Transcendence, and the Good [PDF]
, 2018 Nietzsche regarded nihilism as an outgrowth of the natural sciences which, he worried, were bringing about “an essentially mechanistic [and hence meaningless] world.” Nihilism in this sense refers to the doctrine that there are no values, or that ...
Bourke, Michael
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Audacia de la razón y obediencia de la fe
Tópicos, 2013 The encyclical Fides et ratio corresponds to a new state of mind, characterized by cultural relativism. The point of this document is that of summoning the intellectual and religious resources necessary in order to recover the universal meaning of truth.
Alejandro Llano
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, 2017 Although relativism may be said to be one of the oldest doctrines in philosophy, dating back to the teachings of Protagoras in the 5th century B.C., when it comes to contemporary philosophy, there is no consensus on what makes a view qualify as ...
Isidora, Stojanovic
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Democratic Equality in a Populist Anti‐Multicultural Era
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores what the future role of multiculturalism is, or may be, in Europe by looking at the case of the Netherlands. It focuses on how to respond to the tensions between, on the one hand, prevalent discourses on the dangers, demise and reckoning of multiculturalism and, on the other hand, the promotion of equal citizenship and ...
Tamar de Waal
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Liu Xiaobo and “Charter 08”: Freedom of Expression and Cultural Relativism [PDF]
Contemporary Chinese Political Economy and Strategic Relations: An International Journal, 2018 Late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo represents the fate of a typical case of a dissident in contemporary China under the Communist regime. The Communist China regime always defends against any criticism of its human rights records, in particular ...
Patrick Kar-wai Poon
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Culture in Heritage On the Socio-Anthropological Notion of Culture in Current Heritage Discourses [PDF]
, 2017 The intellectual ‘heritage’ of social anthropology - universalism, cultural relativism and comparative method - is today strongly used as a tool-box by institutions and scholars from other fields.
Pfeilstetter, Richard
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