Sentences with phrase «historicist relativism»

These two sides of our heritage have become split into opposing schools in much of contemporary thought — with one side protesting constrictive rationalisms of all sorts in the name of freedom, and the other resisting all plunges into historicist relativism.

: A Process Philosophical Refutation Of Historicist Relativism»

We might note the obvious influence of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History upon Bénéton's framing of modernity, but he works out the implications of historicist relativism and Weberian social science in ways that are more attuned to both the contemporary academy and to our day - to - day lives.