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Four different views of scientific knowledge and the birth of modern relativism: The very important challenge facing reformed churches in a Western world

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
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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Timelessness of C.G. Jung and Super-Temporality of N.O. Lossky: Comparative Analysis

RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2021
The article compares views of C.G. Jung and N.O. Lossky on the nature of time, including in the context of contemporary to them physical theories - quantum mechanics by W. Pauli and relativistic physics by A. Einstein. In particular, the author points to
Valentin V. Balanovskiy
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Foundations for Moral Relativism [PDF]

, 2015
In this new edition of Foundations for Moral Relativism a distinguished moral philosopher tames a bugbear of current debate about cultural difference. J.
J. Velleman, David
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Relativism vs. Universalism

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2001
This paper addresses the issue of "universality" in the human rights discourse by engaging in two basic tasks: linking the UNDHR to a specific political evolution and juxtaposing this evolution with a difFerent distinct Islamic tradition.
Omer Siddiqui
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Report and Analysis on Ayatullah Jawadi Amuli’s Viewpoint about the Ethical Relativism [PDF]

اخلاق وحیانی, 2011
Ascription and moral relativism are of important issues throughout the history of philosophy. Some people impressed by the findings of cultural differences; societies; customs; And even personal tastes, with rejecting every kind of generalism and ...
Mustafa Salatin, Muhsen Jawadi
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The Risk of Eroding the Foundations of Human Rights

Musica Docta, 2021
This contribution starts from the historical process that led to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948, based on that of 1789), followed by increasingly specific ’Declarations’. Over the years, with the global expansion of the UN, the rights
Raffale Romanelli
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Relativism and hinge epistemology [PDF]

, 2019
This is a survey of different versions of hinge epistemology and their commitment to relativism either of difference or of disagreement, It concludes that on most interpretations of Wittgenstein's On Certainty, there is no commitment to either, although ...
A. Coliva, Annalisa Coliva
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Relativism in Context

Aufklärung, 2019
The present paper introduces four fundamental issues within the framework of epistemic relativism: (a) the lack of precision in the concept of knowing; (b) the changes in the demands between context of use and of evaluation; (c) the violation of the real
Rodrigo Laera
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Interpretive Social Sciences; Cognition and Interpretation [PDF]

Religion & Communication, 2007
Despite a fundamental gap between social sciences and other types of sciences, primary considerations are of hiqh importance, to the extent that a lot of philosophers of science are after a distinetion between these on the basis of cognitive and ...
Asghar Eftekhari
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Relativism in Set Theory and Mathematics

, 2011
This chapter contains sections titled: Abstract Introduction Mathematical Relativism: Does Everything Go In Mathematics? Conceptual, Structural and Logical Relativity in Mathematics Mathematical Relativism and Mathematical Objectivity Mathematical ...
Bueno, Otávio, Otávio Bueno
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