[MD] relative.

[david buchanan]

Marsha said to Mark:
Tell me why you think relativism is destructiveness?  In its most general (Philosophy) dictionary definition it is presented as quite benign? 


dmb says:
Plato said the Sophists were relativists. Pirsig described Plato's accusation as vicious slander. The Stanford Encyclopedia does NOT describe it as "quite benign". Stanford says relativism is generally seen by philosophers as a "kiss of death".

"Relativism also often sounds better in the abstract than it does when we get down to actual cases, which often turn out to be rather trivial, on the one hand, or quite implausible, on the other. But it is also true that most academic philosophers in the English-speaking world see the label ‘relativist’ as the kiss of death, so few have been willing to defend any version of the doctrine (there is less reluctance in some other disciplines)."