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Relativism
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Relativism is the idea that knowledge, truth, and morality depend on people's individual perspectives and experiences.
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- Many people believe in relativism, but others think that there are universal truths.
- Relativism means that what is true for one person may not be true for another.
- The concept of relativism can be difficult to understand.
- Some philosophers argue that relativism leads to moral chaos.
- Relativism challenges the idea of objective reality.
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'Relativism, roughly put, is the view that truth and falsity, right and wrong, standards of reasoning, and procedures of justification are products of differing conventions and frameworks of assessment and that their authority is confined to the context giving rise to them.' -Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
'Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.' -Franz Kafka
'The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.' -Martin Luther King Jr.
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