536 posts tagged Relativism
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Obamanation - The Cult Of Barack Hussein Obama
http://romancatholicblog.typepad.com/ roman_catholic_blog/ 2008/ 05/ obamanation…It's nice to see that Barack Obama's supporters have reasonable expectations rooted in a firm grasp of his personal and political background, as evidenced by the devotional artwork above and the images found here: Reach Out and Touch Faith Note: I'm pretty sure NRO got their title idea from this
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Relatively
http://everyoneneedstherapy.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ relatively.htmlI knew I should have posted about prom week. Now I'm in trouble. I said, only a couple of days ago, Relativism is the one (intervention) we can’t ram at you for fear you’ll think us not empathetic. Yet we hope. . . In other words, Give it a shot. And you voiced objections, of course.
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Science, Morality, Abu Ghraib and Game theory - an interview
http://scientific-misconduct.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ science-morality-abu-ghraib…Seed magazine has just posted the text of a conversation between filmmaker Errol Morris and evolutionary psychologist Marc Hauser about game theory, Stanley Milgram, Abu Ghraib, A Clockwork Orange, communication with dogs, and whether science can make us better people. It is quite relevant to general topic of this blog.
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Modern Childhood and Totalitarian Personality
http://bnww.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ modern-childhood-and-totalitarian-perso…Commenter Kindred has recommended a David Brooks article extolling the virtues of meritocracy, which I feel compelled to respond to. It’s mainly Brooks’ points about the conditioning of children toward being something other than self-governing American citizens that I want to focus on, however.
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Peter Berger on Postmodernity
http://tonyj.net/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ peter-berger-on-postmodernity/“Under modern conditions, where almost everyone lives in communities in which diversity has taken the place of consensus, certainty is much more difficult to come by. Relativism can be described as a world view that not only acknowledges but celebrates the absence of consensus.
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(Concupi)scence You Asked
http://agreatdeception.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ concupiscence-you-asked.htmlDoes there come a point in the spiritual development of an adult Christian when the struggle to avoid sin becomes, well, less of a struggle and more of a habit? I guess I'll have to persevere a little longer (ha) before the habit of virtue is mine, but I do notice that areas that were once unbearable
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Relativism
http://hectorroddan.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ relativism/It sounds ideal in a way to say Foucault got it right and managed to sweep away the two thousand year history of glorious and not-so-glorious attempts at envisaging some form of universal morality. One can now stand up and proudly be culturally and temporally contingent and conscious of it.
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Uncertainty
http://cawoodm.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ uncertainty/I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. —Michael Crichton Have you ever noticed how few western people today profess concrete beliefs about reality? Theories of our origins and purpose are discussed and we call them “interesting”, “innovative” or “dangerous” without caring too much about their truth value.
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gedankenexperiment: human races
http://www.theartofthepossible.net/ 2008/ 05/ 12/ gedankenexperiment-human-races…What would the world be like now if the human race was split into two distinct groups and kept evolving? It almost happened, say this article The genetic split in Africa resulted in distinct populations that lived in isolation for as much as 100,000 years, the scientists say.
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Richard Viguerie - The Reagancomic Tradition
http://delusive.addpdg.org/ 2008/ 05/ 12/ richard-viguerie-the-reagancomic-tradi…Richard Viguerie - The Reagancomic Tradition Richard Viguerie often speaks of conservatism’s “grand tradition of Robert A. Taft, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan”. (see Viguerie press releases dated: 01/03/2008 and 01/15/2008) He wrote that Reagan was one of the high points of the 1964 Goldwater Presidential campaign for conservatives.