[MD] relative.

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Hi dmb,
I provided the same quote in my post on "Is Quality Relative?"  I
guess that Marsha did not read that post.
Mark

On 1/13/12, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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)."
>
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