relativism - use in sentences

Possessives

  • term: The term ' moral relativism ' is understood in a variety of ways.

Converse of object

  • imply: Theodorus defends Protagoras's doctrine that Man is the Measure of All Things, which Socrates takes to imply relativism.
  • argue: First, it argues that relativism provides a plausible account of moral justification.
  • reject: Bourdieu fiercely rejected the fashionable relativism that denies that the sciences can obtain genuine knowledge of the world.
  • suggest: There is nothing in Wittgenstein to suggest that such relativism or reductionism is necessary.
  • embrace: But we can avoid imperialism without embracing moral relativism.
  • simplify: This relativism simplified the relativism that is inherent in matter and and consciousness.

Adjective modifier

  • epistemic: This is the epistemic relativism that forms the basis of my kind of history.
  • epistemological: I guess epistemological relativism is alright when it supports his own religious views apparently.
  • moral: Moral relativism is also in the highest reaches of politics.
  • cultural: Cultural relativism is not an adequate foundation for democracy.
  • ethical: Moral statements were reduced to no more than moral opinions leading to ethical relativism.
  • linguistic: Rather, the arguments deal with those who actually believe that Derrida promotes linguistic relativism.

Modifies a noun

  • debate: This is because of the centrality of the gender question and its impact on the cultural relativism debate within human rights.

Noun used with modifier

  • postmodern: Here Halsey's own perspective, of what I take to be a postmodern relativism, comes to the fore.
  • post-modern: To succumb to cultural or post-modern relativism would simply leave open the field to the most powerful global forces.
  • value: Some right wing theorists support postmodernism for having a value relativism which can break down specific political allegiances across groups ( Rosenau 1992 ).

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