Both were out on a limb, ferociously challenging the slovenly relativism of everyone else.
It is a fight between right and wrong, in which relativism should have no place.
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The idea that morality is a culturally-conditioned response straightforwardly implies moral relativism, and Prinz embraces it.
You might well say that is evidence of a cancerous moral relativism at the heart of the City.
The discovery that relativism is true can help each of us individually by revealing that our values are mutable and parochial.
Relativism does tell us, however, that we are mistaken when we think we are in possession of the one true morality.
At times he calls for a thoroughgoing scepticism, even relativism, attacking the Christianity of Pascal (unconvincingly) and Francis of Assisi (amusingly).
Allegation: Relativism entails that moral debates are senseless, since everyone is right.
Obama, like his fellow modern liberals, has been schooled in moral relativism.
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But, we must be careful when using the slippery slope argument that it doesn't become a disguised form of "moral relativism" or irrationalism.
People often resist relativism because they think it has unacceptable implications.
It is the dominance of moral relativism in liberal institutions like the New York Times that make even the most apologetic expose of the Muslim Brotherhood a major event.
He was wary of a creeping relativism - the idea that all was a matter of opinion and preference and that Truth, with a capital "T" did not exist.
In a world where freedom of choice, and therefore moral relativism, are very much in fashion, the Vatican's efforts to impose unity in its own ranks have seemed heavy-handed.
But Europeans should resist a surrender to moral relativism.
In 2005, Benedict told cardinals gathered to elect a new pope in Rome that this moral framework was also a form of bondage, "a dictatorship of relativism which doesn't recognise anything for certain".
Relativism does not entail tolerance or any other moral value, but, once we see that there is no single true morality, we lose one incentive for trying to impose our values on others.
My next concern is that the moral relativism which emerged post war- and which is probably unavoidable in a liberal society- has morphed into something much worse- what we may call intellectual relativism.
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If moral relativism remains the dominant dogma of the American Jewish establishment, the already weakly defended, but still strongly rooted, support for Israel among the rank and file of the American Jewish community will dissipate.
Since conservatives constantly shout themselves hoarse about the dangers posed by moral relativism, and constantly re-iterate that they are in favor of absolute moral standards, this would seem to be a bit odd, even contradictory.
Pope Benedict's efforts to oppose the tide of many secular trends a force he once famously branded as a "dictatorship of relativism" were partly undercut by his struggle to communicate in a rapidly changing media landscape, turbo-charged by the Internet.
In his recent Keir Hardie lecture (named after Labour's first leader) David Miliband evoked his party's pre-war tradition of mutual guilds and moral seriousness, rather than the mix of Fabian statism and cultural relativism that has prevailed since.
People are willing to obey morals that make sense to them - the "moral relativism" deplored by some traditionalist Christians - and are also proving willing to compose a sense of the religion itself that makes sense to them.
We'd even suggest that as Western culture asserts ever more proudly the superiority of its moral relativism, the more it might want to listen to religious traditions that argue on behalf of moral absolutes and the inherent dignity of every human being.
In Nicaragua I was taught to have respect for other cultures not by examining theoretical anthropological concepts of cultural relativism (which I did later study), but by having my behavior scrutinized and overtly criticized by the people whose homes had been opened to me as part of the trip.
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