Perhaps because relativism is associated with such views, few philosophers are willing to describe themselves as relativists. |
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Liberals find it necessary to deny recurring suspicions that they are antinomians, moral relativists, and secularists set on removing religious values from the public square. |
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Very few people are crude relativists, as Sokal acknowledges. |
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Like all moral relativists and deconstructionists, terrorists hold that human life has no intrinsic and absolute value. |
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In fact I'd go further: I think even the most moral moral absolutists cannot be as moral as the most moral moral relativists. |
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It is the doctrine of relativists, i.e. those who refuse to draw the necessary conclusions. |
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What remains is just bigotry, and probably a spiteful resistance to being seen as caving in to the relativists. |
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It is this difficulty which leads those who are relativists to have these kinds of conversations with others, those who may even be absolutists. |
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Cultural relativists argue that values are very much tied to cultural contexts and may be influenced by the political, economic and social environment on an international, national, local and even family level. |
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This is only one example of how a sacrosanct objective such as cultural diversity can serve less noble causes when cultural relativists interpret it in a different way. |
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The greatest challenge to the claim of universality of rights has come from the cultural relativists, and those that have made political use of their arguments. |
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Based on the existing differences in moral values, relativists conclude that there is no legitimate ground from which to argue about moral values. |
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The interface between these two universes would be what relativists refer to as the light cone on whose surface light, photons, and other particles that travel at the speed of light are propagated. |
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As relativists like to potter with idle inventions! |
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And only the theory of ether was unfairly ruined by the relativists. |
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Relativists maintain that there are no fundamental differences between sciences and nonsciences. |
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