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Relativism in sentence

24 examples of Relativism in a sentence

And this does not lead to a paralyzing moral relativism.
Story: In a world of relativism where anything goes and values are becoming personalized, this movie gave me a truly fresh outlook on old Christian and Buddhist values.
Typical liberal moral relativism.
Mostly it just seemed to be a lampoon of 60's Hollywood hedonistic, leftist, thinking, and represents today's moral relativism where everything is OK if it feels good.
John Paul II undoubtedly keeps a distance from liberal economic ideas and the liberal state, which he often charges with permissiveness and moral relativism.
Self-criticism, not self-love, and cultural relativism are the nuts and bolts of the Western mindset.
As the son of Holocaust survivors, I have always had an intuitive aversion to moral relativism.
Perhaps ethical absolutism and its opponent relativism influenced that deterioration by undermining the sense of collective truth that is forged in social dialogue and wide civic participation.
The ideal of multiculturalism at home was echoed with an ideology of cultural relativism abroad, especially in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Its acolytes deplore the grit and relativism of politics and issue futile appeals for moral revivals.
Sadly, this newfound modesty, so necessary for understanding other cultures and traditions, threatens to veer into relativism and a questioning of the very idea of truth in human affairs.
Here the charge of relativism arises.
Of course, the Alliance of Civilizations should not attempt to bridge differences by defending moral relativism.
These are not necessarily xenophobic questions: a post-enlightenment civil society, with a free press and due process, is a precious thing, and those values should not be sacrificed to politically correct moral relativism.
A moral relativism has spread, leading many to accept the taboos of all religious groups in the name of tolerance and multiculturalism.
A leading journalist, Cristian Tudor Popescu, reproached animal rights defenders for their moral relativism and insensitivity to human suffering.
Moral relativism has damaged public life.
Rationalism, in their eyes, produced liberalism, relativism, a break in the thread of tradition, destruction of the family, pornography, homosexual displays, promiscuity (sexual and many others), a debasement of arts and letters through moral bankruptcy.
The second source of rights - the essentially positivist view that whatever a society declares by some constitutional means to be a right becomes one - likewise provides no guarantee for liberalizing tendencies, for it leads to cultural relativism.
This does not mean embracing moral relativism.
On the other hand, they have painted themselves as sworn enemies of the left’s supposed moral relativism – an image for which the recourse to religion is obviously helpful.
We should reject cultural relativism – the example of female genital mutilation is enough to show that not all cultural practices are defensible.
Even if we stop short of embracing radical ethical relativism, he argued, we should not ignore completely the context in which the alleged behavior took place.
Security from the fear of terrorism truly is indivisible, and moral relativism has no place in meeting the challenge of ending the scourge.