Absolute Relativism : Or, The Absolute in Relation
Author: William Bell McTaggart
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 158
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Absolute Relativism; Or, the Absolute in Relation
Author: William Bell McTaggart
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Published: 2015-08-22
Total Pages: 154
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Absolute Relativism; Or, the Absolute in Relation
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbsolute Relativism, Or the Absolute in Relation, Vol. 1
Author: William Bell McTaggart
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-10-12
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781333930882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Absolute Relativism, or the Absolute in Relation, Vol. 1: Preface and Prologomena The object of this work is, firstly, to examine each and all the leading systems of Philosophy. Have they one and all failed, and is their endeavour fruitless? They have failed, one and all, to represent the whole of truth; but they are, each and all, stepping-stones laid for the passage of those who follow after. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Absolute Relativism: The New Dictatorship and What to Do about It
Author: Stefanick Chris
Publisher: Catholic Answers
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 59
ISBN-13: 9781933919461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to the new tyranny "If it feels good, do it." "That's your opinion, and this is mine." "I don't want to impose my beliefs on others." And thus the Dictator of Relativism speaks as he has always spoken to seduce humanity into a false sense of freedom. Pope Benedict XVI, Christ's personally chosen defender of the Truth is fighting back. He recognized this in his homily on April 18, 2005, "We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires." Through a down-to-earth, easily accessible Question-and-Answer format, Stefanick's book shows: Why relativism inherently contradicts its own claims. What makes it one of the worst ideas in the history of ideas. How relativism has a direct influence on the morals and virtues of a nation. Why relativism doesn't even work "in real life." How relativism is counterproductive to the true practice of tolerance Why religion which makes claims to absolute truth is finally more tolerant than relativism. What Christianity has almost singlehandedly done to foster true tolerance in the world. How all laws legislate morality What the true meaning of "open-minded" means it's not what you think!
True Truth
Author: Art Lindsley
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2004-04-08
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780830832354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArt Lindsley ably demonstrates that faith in Christ is necessarily opposed to and incompatible with the abuses of oppression, arrogance, intolerance, self-righteousness, closed-mindedness and defensiveness. Surprisingly, he shows that it is relativism which often harbors dangerous, inflexible absolutisms.
The Book of Absolutes
Author: William Gairdner
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0773574697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively challenge to postmodern opinion that reveals satisfying and reliable certainties.
Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, Volume One
Author: Thomas R. Flynn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0226254690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSartre and Foucault were two of the most prominent and at times mutually antagonistic philosophical figures of the twentieth century. And nowhere are the antithetical natures of their existentialist and poststructuralist philosophies more apparent than in their disparate approaches to historical understanding. A history, thought Foucault, should be a kind of map, a comparative charting of structural transformations and displacements. But for Sartre, authentic historical understanding demanded a much more personal and committed narrative, a kind of interpretive diary of moral choices and risks compelled by critical necessity and an exacting reality. Sartre's history, a rational history of individual lives and their intrinsic social worlds, was in essence immersed in biography. In Volume One of this authoritative two-volume work, Thomas R. Flynn conducts a pivotal and comprehensive reconstruction of Sartrean historical theory, and provocatively anticipates the Foucauldian counterpoint to come in Volume Two.
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1
Author: Richard Rorty
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990-11-30
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1139935763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political implications they draw from dropping traditional philosophical doctrines. In this volume Rorty offers a Deweyan account of objectivity as intersubjectivity, one that drops claims about universal validity and instead focuses on utility for the purposes of a community. The sense in which the natural sciences are exemplary for inquiry is explicated in terms of the moral virtues of scientific communities rather than in terms of a special scientific method. The volume concludes with reflections on the relation of social democratic politics to philosophy.
Fear of Knowledge
Author: Paul Boghossian
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2007-10-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0191622753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe academic world has been plagued in recent years by scepticism about truth and knowledge. Paul Boghossian, in his long-awaited first book, sweeps away relativist claims that there is no such thing as objective truth or knowledge, but only truth or knowledge from a particular perspective. He demonstrates clearly that such claims don't even make sense. Boghossian focuses on three different ways of reading the claim that knowledge is socially constructed - one as a thesis about truth and two about justification. And he rejects all three. The intuitive, common-sense view is that there is a way things are that is independent of human opinion, and that we are capable of arriving at belief about how things are that is objectively reasonable, binding on anyone capable of appreciating the relevant evidence regardless of their social or cultural perspective. Difficult as these notions may be, it is a mistake to think that recent philosophy has uncovered powerful reasons for rejecting them. This short, lucid, witty book shows that philosophy provides rock-solid support for common sense against the relativists; it will prove provocative reading throughout the discipline and beyond.
