[MD] suspended in language

[Steven Peterson]

Hi Marsha,


> Here is where I believe rejects ethical relativism, the ethical relativism
> that Plato was accusing Protagoras and the early sophists of teaching.  He
> doesn't reject all forms of relativism, but explicitly rejects ethical
> relativism:
>
> "Then Phædrus feels a tugging to read the passage again, and he does so and
> then -- what's this?! -- ``That which we translate `virtue ' but is in Greek
> `excellence.'''
> Lightning hits!
> Quality! Virtue! Dharma! That is what the Sophists were teaching! Not
> ethical relativism. Not pristine ``virtue.'' But areté. Excellence. Dharma!
> Before the Church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and
> matter. Before dialectic itself. Quality had been absolute. Those first
> teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had
> chosen was that of rhetoric. He has been doing it right all along."
>   (RMP,ZMM,Chapter 29)

What sort of relativism are you talking about if not ethical
relativism when you call yourself a relativist?

Best,
Steve