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Jean de Léry cosmopolite ?

open access: yesViatica, 2022
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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Folk Moral Relativism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
It has often been suggested that people's ordinary understanding of morality involves a belief in objective moral truths and a rejection of moral relativism. The results of six studies call this claim into question.
Knobe, Joshua   +4 more
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Kuhn's ontological relativism [PDF]

open access: yesScience & Education, 1997
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn presented a model of scientific development on which science is characterized by periods of unified research intermittently disrupted by revolutionary change of paradigm. Ever since Kuhn first proposed this model of scientific theory change, relativism, in one form or another, has been ...
openaire   +1 more source

Paradox and Relativism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2017
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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Four different views of scientific knowledge and the birth of modern relativism: The very important challenge facing reformed churches in a Western world

open access: yesHTS 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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Relativism, Faultlessness and Parity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Some philosophers, like Mark Richard and Paul Boghossian, have argued against relativism that it cannot account for the possibility of faultless disagreement.
Filippo, Ferrari
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The Problem of Post-Truth. Rethinking the Relationship between Truth and Politics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
‘Post-truth’ is a failed concept, both epistemically and politically because its simplification of the relationship between truth and politics cripples our understanding and encourages authoritarianism. This makes the diagnosis of our ‘post-truth era’ as
Vogelmann, Frieder
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Relativism vs. Universalism

open access: yesAmerican 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]

open access: yesاخلاق 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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Timelessness of C.G. Jung and Super-Temporality of N.O. Lossky: Comparative Analysis

open access: yesRUDN 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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