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Is Moore’s Moral Objectivist Argument Sufficient Against Moral Relativism?
MarifetnameThis study aims to expose certain weaknesses in Moore’s moral objectivist argument against moral relativism and subjectivism. It suggests that a moral objectivist argument has to explain moral diversity against moral relativism ...
Burhan Başarslan
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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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There is nothing honourable about honour killings: gender, violence and the limits of multiculturalism [PDF]
, 2007 'Honour killings' are extreme acts of domestic violence culminating in the murder of a woman by her family or community. However only in relation to religious and ethnic communities is the concept of 'honour' invoked as motivation for domestic violence ...
Meetoo, Veena, Mirza, Heidi
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Relativism: Protagoras and Nelson Goodman
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2015 Discussion of the many faces of relativism occupies a highly prominent place in the epistemological literature. Protagoras in ancient Greece and Nelson Goodman in the modern period are two most notable proponent of relativism.
Esmaeil Saadati Khamseh
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Validation of an Instrument for Chinese Engineering Students’ Epistemological Development
International Journal of Chinese Education, 2015 Perry’s theory has demonstrated usefulness in understanding students’ epistemological development and the implications for educational practices. It depicts the development of adults’ thinking in four stages: Dualism, Multiplicity, Relativism , and ...
Zhu Jiabin +3 more
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Études Lawrenciennes, 2020 Anyone who has seriously engaged with D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love has probably at some point been frustrated by its many inconsistencies. The characters repeatedly change their minds about and their attitudes towards different questions, while the ...
Maria Trejling
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, 2013 It has often been suggested that people’s ordinary folk understanding of morality involves a rejection of moral relativism and a belief in objective moral truths. The results of six studies call this claim into question. Participants did offer apparently
Knobe, Joshua +4 more
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The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2018 I argue that art is a kind of epistemology. It is a way we know the world. But it is not know-ing the world in the way that old correspondence theory of empiricism claimed, nor what the rationalists wanted to believe: we cannot simply look at the world ...
Dena Shottenkirk
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Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Between Reason and Relativism; a Critical Appraisal [PDF]
, 2005 This paper pursues the double task of (a) presenting Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms as a systematic critique of culture and (b) assessing this systematic approach with regards to the question of reason vs. relativism.
Luft, Sebastian
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Troubling children's families: who's troubled and why? Approaches to inter-cultural dialogue [PDF]
, 2017 This article draws on multi-disciplinary perspectives to consider the need and the possibilities for inter-cultural dialogue concerning families that may be seen by some to be ‘troubling’.
Gillies, V. +3 more
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