(1) In another situation, relativism and politicalization may serve counterposed goals.(2) That is something that you often hear about from the perspective of cultural relativism .(3) The three introductory readings come out of the rich anthropological literature on culture and cultural relativism .(4) We cannot let cultural relativism becomes the last refuge of repression.(5) If so, how does pluralism differ from radical relativism and subjectivism?(6) Context is only deemed important when such relativism would be seen to give validity to bigotry, racism and prejudice.(7) It is this crude version of relativism about truth which I am concerned with here, not its more sophisticated philosophical cousins.(8) Such a position does indeed amount to a form of epistemological relativism .(9) However, the distinction here is between absolutism and relativism , not between absolutism and relationalism.(10) The relativist must therefore hold that relativism is both true and false.(11) However, relativism is a philosophical doctrine that goes far beyond such obvious facts.(12) There is more to be said, particularly about the threats of relativism , nihilism, and scepticism, which still lurk.(13) It is not the reality of scepticism or of truth dissolving relativism , but the claim to truth of all formal argument that is affected.(14) The debate about relativism turns on separating truth claims and actions.(15) One wonders if in the morass of cultural relativism , the only sane ground is to eschew all taboo.(16) I do use the viewpoint of cultural relativism ; I think it's the only thing we can do under the circumstances.
