RELATIVISM
The communications revolution of the past century has thrown into our face the fact that people have very different ways of understanding the world and different sets of values. We know this because magazines show us pictures of them, and on TV they’re busy either behaving in their quaint ways or yelling at us. This new awareness of the diversity of our world has helped exacerbate our culture’s depressing relativism.
Y’all know the relativist argument: Other people have views they hold as strongly as you hold yours. Those views are incompatible with yours. Thus, a sense of certainty is insufficient to guarantee truth.… Read More...