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Navigating Moral Relativism: The Catholic Church’s Response in Contemporary America

Verbum Vitae
The aim of the article is to show how moral relativism has become a defining feature of contemporary American culture, influencing individuals’ attitudes toward ethics, marriage, family, and social order.
Grzegorz Rozborski
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Le voyage de Chevrillon au Maroc : le monde se lit au pluriel

Multilinguales, 2017
During his trip to Morocco, André Chevrillon experienced alterity, a phase of cultural exchange, characterized by diversity and pluralism. This experience is also a phase of reflection on the Self and the Other.
Abdelhak Zerrad
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Philosophy and Disagreement

Crítica, 2018
Disagreement as we find it in both the history and the contemporary practice of philosophy is an inadequately understood phenomenon. In this paper I outline and motivate the problem of disagreement, arguing that “hard cases” of disagreement confront us ...
Brian Ribeiro
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Molinism’s Value in Easing Mistrust of God Stemming From Suffering and Divine Silence

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2021
One issue that sometimes produces mistrust of God in the life of a Christian is God’s perceived silence when He allows a trial to enter the believer’s life—especially when the believer has been faithfully praying that God would not allow it and there is ...
Breitenbach Zachary
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Epistemological Implications of Relativism [PDF]

, 2017
Relativists about knowledge ascriptions think that whether a particular use of a knowledge-ascribing sentence, e.g., “Keith knows that the bank is open” is true depends on the epistemic standards at play in the assessor’s context—viz., the context in ...
Carter, J. Adam
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Serial fiction, the End? [PDF]

, 2015
Andrew McGonigal presents some interesting data concerning truth in serial fictions.1 Such data has been taken by McGonigal, Cameron and Caplan to motivate some form of contextualism or relativism.
Walters, Lee
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Epistemic modals and context: Experimental data

Semantics and Pragmatics, 2014
Recently, a number of theorists (MacFarlane (2003, 2011), Egan, Hawthorne & Weatherson (2005), Egan (2007), Stephenson (2007a,b)) have argued that an adequate semantics and pragmatics for epistemic modals calls for some technical notion of relativist ...
Joshua Knobe, Seth Yalcin
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Beyond Relativism? Re-engaging Wittgenstein [PDF]

, 2002
Relativism is the view that there are as many worlds as there are ways of thinking and expressing the worlds that are expressed. That is to say, things are related to the ways in which we express them. Thus philosophers assert that the way we express our
Bal, Ramakanta
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Currículo, universalismo e relativismo: uma discussão com Jean-Claude Forquin Curriculum, universalism and relativism: a discussion with Jean-Claude Forquin

Educação & Sociedade, 2000
O texto discute a conferência do professor Jean-Claude Forquin, proferida em 17 de junho de 1997, por ocasião do seminário internacional comemorativo dos 25 anos dos cursos de p s-Graduação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal do Rio de ...
Tomaz Tadeu da Silva
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Relativism and our warrant for scientific theories [PDF]

, 2004
We depend upon the community for justified belief in scientific theory. This dependence can suggest that our individual belief in scientific theory is justified because the community believes it to be justified.
Faulkner, P.
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