Sentences with phrase «from cultural relativity»

What we learn from cultural relativity is firstly this: our cultural convictions and practices are always relative, relative to the time in which we live, the position we choose to take, and the cultural inheritance which has shaped us.

We can no more escape from cultural relativity than we can defy gravity.

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The relativity of Niebuhr's theocentric relativism derives not from the variety of religious and cultural contexts in which different people live, but from the awareness that each person lives in several of these contexts at once.

- the cultural relativity argument which assumes that «the Bible is an old book from a different culture, so we can't take it seriously in the modern world.»

Hearing from the black and third - world theologians of the cultural advantages and cultural oppressions wrought through our theologies underscores again the relativity of theological thought.

Cultural relativity of toilet training readiness: A perspective from East Africa.

Postmodernism adopted ideas from cultural anthropology and relativity theory to argue that truth is relative and subject to the assumptions and prejudices of the observer.

In the following Figure, from her entertaining TEDxManchester talk The fascinating physics of everyday life, she shows how the physics of the every day applies over a huge range of scales (in time and space); bracketed between the exotic worlds of the extremely small (quantum mechanics) and extremely large (general relativity) which tend to dominate our cultural perceptions of physics today.