In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left
Today there seems to be only one absolute thing: relativism.
No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.
My version of relativism is pluralistic and attributes functions to morality that in combination with human nature place limits on what could count as a true morality. Unlike many other relativists, I do not hold that people are subject to a morality because they all belong to a certain group. That is, I don't hold that being a member of a group makes one's subject to some set of generally accepted norms. What is true is that others around us teach us morality and moral language, so they inevitably influence us.
The problem is that relativism provides no sure foundation for a safe and orderly society.
Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time
Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]. . . that art occasionally resolves. . . the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism. . . These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.
I hate relativism. I hate relativism more than I hate anything else, excepting, maybe, fiberglass powerboats. . . surely, surely , no one but a relativist would drive a fiberglass powerboat.
