In my previous post, A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and Hidden Objectivist Assumptions”, I addressed some criticisms levelled at a talk I gave on moral relativsm by Deane from The Dunedin School (TDS) blog. In a follow up post, which, once again, I cannot link directly too as TDS [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Relativism'
A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and So-Called ‘Counter-Examples’”
January 2nd, 2010 9 Comments
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Deane Galbraith · Relativism · The Dunedin School
A Response to The Dunedin School’s “Thinking in Tatters: Moral Relativism and Hidden Objectivist Assumptions”
December 29th, 2009 7 Comments
A while ago I did a series of semi-popular posts on moral relativism beginning with Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism I. These posts grew out of a talk I gave in Tauranga in 2008. Later I presented essentially the same talk at Laidlaw College for Thinking Matters Auckland which was posted on You Tube and [...]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Deane Galbraith · Relativism · The Dunedin School
Sunday Study: The Virtue of Judging – Jesus was not a Relativist
June 23rd, 2009 3 Comments
About a year ago I gave a talk on moral relativism for Thinking Matters Tauranga. During that talk I noted that relativism entails that one cannot apply the moral principles you (or your culture) accepts to the practices of other people (or cultures). I was critical of this position arguing that it suffers from all [...]
Tags: Judging · Relativism · Sunday Study · Theology
Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism III
December 6th, 2008 24 Comments
Arguments against Relativism
In my previous post I argued that the common arguments for relativism fail. In this post I want to go one step further and suggest there are good reasons for rejecting relativism. Many reasons could be mustered here; I will limit myself to three.
Counter Examples
Both cultural and individual ethical relativism are [...]
Tags: Ethics · Louis Pojman · Philosophy of Religion · Relativism
Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism II
December 5th, 2008 13 Comments
In my previous post, I set out the differences between relativist and objectivist views of ethics. I noted that objectivist views were widely disparaged in our culture in favour of relativist ones. I now want to raise what, I think, is an obvious question, why should we accept the relativism assumed in much cultural ethical [...]
Tags: Ethics · Frances Howard-Snyder · Philosophy of Religion · Relativism · Rodney Stark
Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism I
December 2nd, 2008 17 Comments
Suppose you asked me what today’s date was and I answered that the Maori Electorate seats in Parliament should be scrapped. You would quite rightly wonder what I was on. The question of what the date is is a completely different question as to whether a particular social policy is just.
Oddly enough, however, when it [...]
Tags: Ethics · Frances Howard-Snyder · Philosophy of Religion · Relativism · Robert Adams
Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism – Invitation to a Thinking Matters Event
August 19th, 2008 No Comments
[ 2 September 2008; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Taken from Thinking Matters – Events & Announcements:
Cultural Confusion and Ethical Relativism
Dr Matthew Flannagan PhD, MSocSci, BSocSci
When: Tuesday 2nd September
Time: 7 – 9pm
Where: Bethlehem Community Church Center – 183 Moffat Rd, Bethlehem, Tauranga
Cost: Free
Event Format: Live Presentation followed by Q&A and discussions
Christian moral obligations are often seen as bigoted [...]
Tags: Events · Faith and Reason · Relativism · Thinking Matters
