RELATIVISM


Meaning of RELATIVISM in English

noun

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As a student of Lukács, Mannheim was influenced by his treatment of ideology, history and the problem of relativism .

Child was of course accepting a degree of relativism which was usually an anathema to philosophers.

Often, therefore, relativism produces, through reaction to it, precisely what it sets out to destroy: increased dogmatism.

Scientific enterprise is undermined by the extreme forms of relativism .

Since then I have continued in several pieces of writing to oppose extreme relativism .

The problem of epistemological and cultural relativism , amongst other things, looms large here.

There are at least three strong arguments against relativism as a stance which it is important that we help pupils to understand.

Three of these are of major significance: scientism, relativism and religious intolerance.

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