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Relatywizm kulturowy a badanie relacji międzykulturowych
Cultural Relativism and Research on Intercultural Relations The article discusses various versions of relativism – descriptive, linguistic and axiological. Author assumes the attitude toward specific questions regarding above types of relativism in terms
Janusz A. Majcherek
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Relativism stresses that value judgements are statements about meaning and not about facts, about “ought” and not about “is”. Professor Arnold Brecht explained and substantiated the existence of a link between “is” and “ought”, which does not have a ...
Isabel Ruiz-Gallardón
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Practice relativism is the idea that practices are foundational for bodies of activity and thought, and differ from one another in ways that lead those who constitute the world in terms of them to incommensurable or conflicting conclusions.
Stephen P. Turner
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AbstractThe particular behavior exhibited by sentences featuring predicates of personal taste such as “tasty” may drive us to claim that their truth depends on thecontext of assessment, as MacFarlane does. MacFarlane considers two ways in which the truth of a sentence can depend on the context of assessment.
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I argue for a type of relativism that allows different people to have conflicting accurate representations of the world. This is contrary to the view of most Anglo-American philosophers, who would, with Paul Boghossian in Fear of Knowledge, deny that ...
Howard Darmstadter
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If Jean de Léry was never called a citizen of the world or “cosmopolitan”, some aspects of his relationship to Brazilian alterity seem to correspond quite well to the definition which that term received throughout the centuries.
Dorine Rouiller
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Since the time of Plato, relativism has been attacked as a self-refuting theory. Today, there are two basic kinds of argument that are used to show that global relativism is logically incoherent: first, a direct descendent of the argument Plato uses ...
H. Muhammad Legenhausen
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Theologians are used to pointing the finger at European continental postmodernism when dealing with modern relativism. This article addresses a problem that is seldom highlighted within theology: modern relativism is the result of a series of ...
Nicolaas J. Gronum
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Relativism and Persistence [PDF]
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS] Philosophers often talk as if what it takes for a person to persist through time were up to us,\ud as individuals or as a linguistic community, to decide. In most ordinary situations it might be\ud fully determinate whether someone has survived or perished: barring some unforeseen\ud catastrophe, it is clear enough that you will ...
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