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Thursday, 07 November 2002 23:50 |
article: Relatively Speaking: Simon Blackburn, royalinstitutephilosophy.org
"There are philosophers ('absolutists') who like to stress truth, objectivity, rationality, and knowledge. Then there are others ('relativists') who like to stress contingency, mutability, culture, historicity, situatedness. The first group think that the second group have no standards. The second group are accused of encouraging 'postmodernism', or the licentious thinking and bullshitting that goes on in some parts of the humanities. The second group think the first group are conservative and complacent, and that their words simply mark fetishes."
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