Prof Eileen John speaks at our Penelope Mackie Research Seminar⁣
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'Embracing Artistic Disagreement without Relativism'. ⁣
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🕒 3-5pm
🌐 @UoNHumanities A1
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#philosophy #aesthetics #art #relativism #disagreement

How #Academia Abandoned #Evidence for #Ideology.

Melanie Philips: #Objective #evidence was cast aside because it was too inconvenient.

The very idea of #reason & #rationality was dismissed.

All these #ideologies, #multiculturalism, deep #green #environmentalism, #moral #relativism, were #utopian.

Tell that to Tibetans, Uyghur people, people in Hong Kong and Taiwan, people in Sub-Saharan African states who are effectively being dispossessed of their land.

And why 45 years? To avoid speaking about the great famines?

#relativism doesn’t help anybody.

Did you know sophism sparked debates on truth vs rhetoric? Ancient Greek sophists like Protagoras questioned objectivity, paving the way for relativism (“Man is the measure of all things”)—challenging Plato’s pursuit of eternal truths. (Q166955) #AncientGreece #Relativism #Philosophy

Qualified Subjectivism I Am a Qualified Subjectivist. No, That Does Not Mean ‘Anything Goes’. Make no mistake: I am a subjectivist. A qualified one. Not that kind of qualified – the qualification matters, but…

I witter on about Qualified Subjectivity. philosophics.blog/2026/01/16/q...
Why objective reality is an anachronistic myth.
#philosophy #politics #society #culture #mediation #truth #relativism #subjectivity #language #semantics #ontology #epistemology #kant #history #intetrfaces #blog #podcast

Greenland, Venezuela, Epstein files, ICE… on it goes. Where does the truth stand? How do we see things with clarity, or is that no longer a possibility? A panel for the day…

#history #truth #art #relativism

David Wong argues there is more that one true morality in *Too Weird to Believe, Too Plausible to Deny* 🔗 Link in bio #philosophy #ethics #morality #pluralism #relativism

To sum up, the moral I want to draw from my discussion of the claim that Berlin's position is "relativistic" is that this charge should not be answered, but rather evaded. We should learn to brush aside questions like "How do you know that freedom is the chief goal of social organization?" in the same way as we brush aside questions like "How do you know that Jones is worthy of your friendship?" or "How do you know that Yeats is an important poet, Hegel an important philosopher, and Galileo an important scientist?" We should see allegiance to social institutions as no more matters for justification by reference to familiar, commonly accepted premises—but also as no more arbitrary—than choices of friends or heroes. Such choices are not made by reference to criteria. They cannot be preceded by presuppositionless critical reflection, conducted in no particular language and outside of any particular historical context.

We should see allegiance to social institutions as no more matters for justification by reference to familiar, commonly accepted premises—but also as no more arbitrary—than choices of friends or heroes.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity p.54
#Pragmatism
#Rorty
#Relativism

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #fantasyland #andersen #droz #mehmetoz #medicine #religion #fantasy #1960s #relativism #facts #data

🔥In "Containerizing the #Global #South: Universalism, #Relativism, and the Silenced Other," Gatonye rethinks #HumanRights beyond #Eurocentric frames, revealing the #universalism of #Law as a web of paradoxes.
📍More here: tinyurl.com/PZ-HRights-Law
@humanrightsindex.bsky.social @malangwa.bsky.social

The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse How we got to “I love Hitler.”

“Once #morality is rotted out by partisan #relativism, the floor gives way and the fall into #nihilism is swift.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

When Hatred Claims to Be Love The death of truth in a world of violence

When we can no longer define what is good, should we be surprised when bad things happen? singlecatholicwriter.substack.com/p/when-hatre...

#truth #love #conscience #Christianity #Catholic #faith #spirituality #religion #relativism #life #Substack #CatholicChurch #Christian #CharlieKirk

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#philsky #philosophy #morals #moralrelativism #relativism #relativity #leopold #petersinger @petersinger.info #ethics #meme #trolleyproblem

Gastbeitrag von Peter Addor: Über Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit Gastbeitrag von Peter Addor, der versucht den Zusammenhang von "Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit" einmal aus mathematischer Sicht zu beleuchten.

#Guestcontribution by #Peter #Addor: "On #truth and #reality"

#essay #realism #debate #concept of truth #ontology #epistemology #theory of #science #mathematics #logic #theory of #correspondence or of #coherence truth #relativism #sense #meaning

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/20...

Relativism and Cardinal Ratzinger - ABC listen In the homily that he delivered at the mass held before the conclave that was to elect him Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratizinger, inveighed against what he called relativism. "Today," he said, "having a cl...

Tue 26 Apr 2005

Relativism and Cardinal Ratzinger

This week, we examine the allure of #relativism and discuss how (or whether) it should be resisted.

- with #JamesFranklin, the University of New South Wales.

#Apr2005

📣📣📣 Si estás por #Madrid y quieres pasar un rato refrescante... en todos los sentidos...
Aquí te dejo un plan irresistible 😎
#CLIC25

#language #cognition #ideophones non- #weird languages #motivation #relativism #culture
@ucm.es
@unizar.es

#relativism #cultures #colonialism #Montaigne

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Ethical implications of the authoritarian personality

Peter E. Mudrack

→ doi.org/10.1111/beer...

#AuthoritarianPersonality #EthicalRelativism #EthicalTheory #ObedienceToAuthority #Relativism #BusinessEthics #Authoritarians #Authoritarianism #Conformity #RightWingAuthoritarianism #Employees

Is God's Law etched in every heart?
Or is morality is just cultural flair?

Maybe it’s simpler than that.
Murder, theft, betrayal—every tribe & tongue calls 'em wrong.
Not because they’re divine.
Because without 'em, society crumbles.

#Deconstruction #SpiritualJourney #Morality #Relativism

Johann Gottfried Herder, a forgotten philosopher Some philosophers with a big impact on human thinking are almost forgotten. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is one of them. I guess that...

New blog about Johann Gottfried Herder, a forgotten philosopher. He gave is the feeling of history
philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2025/04/joha...
#Herder #history #relativism #culturerelativism #Enlightenment #humanrights

Christianity is More Than a Mere Belief Ideally, it should be a lifestyle. There are many different religions across the world. We live today in a culture deeply steeped in relativism, which supports and encourages religious pluralism, the denial of objective truth and, ultimately, the denial of reality. In the world of religions, Christianity stands out. Most world religions are based on feelings and subjectivity—which undoubtedly fits in with our culture of relativism.

#Christianity #Apologetics #WorldReligions #Relativism

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #fantasyland #andersen #truth #reality #relativism #individuality #liberty #opinion #fact #1960s

Protagoras, Orthopéia, and the Measure of All Things A Buddhist Perspective -

About Protagoras, the ancient Greek thinker whose ideas on language, perception, and knowledge resonate in intriguing ways with Buddhist thought.

thegentlelaw.substack.com/p/protagoras...
#AncientPhilosophy #GreekPhilosophy #Buddhism #Skepticism #Agnosticism #Relativism #PhilosophyDiscussion

Maybe the only truth is that there is no absolute truth. And that our reality is always a delicate balance between self-deception and insight.
#Philosophy #Relativism

Relativism ⚖️🌍

Belief that morality and truth depend on context, culture, or perspective 🧠✨.

Challenges absolutes, promoting diversity and tolerance 🌱.

"What’s true for you may not be true for me."

#Relativism #Philosophy #Diversity #Tolerance

Philosophical Worlviews:

#Absurdism
#Agnosticatheism
#Agnosticism
#Anti-theism
#Atheism
#Apatheism
#Deism
#Determinism
#Existentialism
#Humanism
#Ignosticism
#Materialism
#Naturalism
#Nihilism
#Pantheism
#Physicalism
#Relativism
#Secularism
#Spiritualism
#Stoicism
#Transhumanism
#Utilitarianism

Scapegoat innocence,
beyond all doubt, is a fact -
Billy Scape? Never! #haiku

#Poem #Poetry #MicroPoetry #μverse #blame #guilt #absolutes #relativism #causation #determinism #moral #philosophy

What do Ethnocentrism and Relativism Share? – Daily27

"One of the common mistakes among intellectuals is ignoring that ethnocentrism and relativism share the same fundamental basis of analysis"

✏️ @engflecha.bsky.social, Emeritus Full-Professor at the University of Barcelona:

daily27.info/2025/01/10/w...

#SocSky #Relativism #Ethnocentrism #News

5 Aug 1895: Death of F.Engels
The real world isn’t just ideas floating in material weightlessness
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating”
Against current relativisms:
www.cairn.info/revue-la-pen...
www.cairn.info/revue-la-pen...

#Engels #Marx #science #materialism #marxism vs #relativism

.@prosperbluff and I arguing on whether Nancy would be a throat goat in today's age. #relativism