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relativism

re luh ti vi zuhm

  • n  (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved

  • Akinola has the strength of a lion, useful in confronting Third World fundamentalism and First World relativism.
  • And Europe, it seems, needs her, to highlight a critical challenge: Can a multicultural society produce pluralism without relativism? So far, it doesn't bode well for her plight.
  • The "dictatorship of relativism" quote has become a rallying cry for some Roman Catholic conservatives, especially those dismayed by the growing spread of secularism in Europe .
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  • Manning the barricades — to protect America
    The Issue: Pfc. Bradley Manning’s conviction of espionage last week for leaking classified documents. *** The newly convicted traitor Bradley Manning is a product of the New Left, which views everything through a faux intellectual prism of moral relativism in which sedition is whistle-blowing, patriotism is reviled, anti-Americanism is chic...
    Aug. 5, 2013 - New York Post
Quotes

  • President Bush in TIME
    We need your message to reject the dictatorship of relativism,Bush said in his welcome, "and embrace a culture of justice and truth."
  • Pope Benedict XVI in annointed.net
    It is due to the expansionism of Protestant sects that attract an ever-larger number of baptized Catholics, but also to moral relativism, imported from Europe and introduced on the continent above all by the local ruling classes, the mass media and... Claudio Hummes http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%A1udio_Hummes&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFxtoeyEtJU5YpAlsoobFdWhUOiUA Forbes http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/05/07/ap3693604.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGXLjs8ohANSv8xCrv3Qq7oysZh0Q May 7, 2007 82208 109952 relativism Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church, is often labeled today as fundamentalism," said Ratzinger, who is the Vatican's doctrinal chief and dean of the College of Cardinals. "Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be...

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