Sentences with word «relativist»

It has welcomed, naturally enough, the warmth and the poetry of Deus est Caritas; but it is now hoping that the Pope's first encyclical signals that there will be no more uncomfortable demands for the renunciation of relativist moral values, indeed, that thePope will now bask in his new popularity and become a mellow and liberal guru to the modern world, that his life story will be rather like that of Pius IX but in reverse.

Being a moral relativist who sees phantoms among the ranks of people trying to make a living as writers doesn't make him an expert in anything except sophistry.

(They certainly were not nihilist nor even amoral, and not relativist nor morally indifferent.)

Prime Minister Harper sharply rebuked those who criticize Israel's human rights record in his speech to the Israeli Knesset in January of this year, essentially labelling us moral relativists who «go along to get along».

I have some principles and I want to see a Conservative Party elected, not a load of opportunist relativists in Pale Blue.

And how can open societies themselves be saved from giving a posthumous victory to such relativists as Hitler and Mussolini, who began by stating that nothing in politics is right or wrong, that only power matters?

THE PAPAL ARGUMENT AGAINST RELATIVIST RIGHTS

He is certainly right that there are almost no consistent relativists out there.

If those in the church who are in favor of changing long - held attitudes and ordinances relating to homosexuals were merely cultural relativists with no regard for the Bible or tradition, the debate would be easier.

And an old historical relativist perspective reminds me that, like most Christians, my being such is an accident of history and biology just as accidents of history determine other religious traditions and who belongs to them.

Now it takes little reflection to see that most major problems of ecclesial and political controversy have always been and will continue to be divergent and not convergent ones; accordingly, there is an especially vexing irony in the fact that those who want to find a «mainstream» position on the Big Issues are almost always those who are committed on other grounds to a pluralist or relativist stance in matters of public debate.

The revelation that the «end of the grand narratives» trumpeted by liberal relativists fits the neocons» «end of history» like a Spanx tee, though, has hardly set the cultural world on fire.

The great analyser of relativist culture, Jeff Mirus, seems to have downplayed a bit too much the role of the intellectual.

Her attack on relativist and deconstructionist readings of history does not, as I indicated, preclude new or dramatically different interpretations of the Holocaust (or any other event) in the light of new evidence and argumentation.

Now religious people will claim atheists are morality relativists but then so are people of faith as they believe in command morality... it changes with gods whims.

Or, as Bernard Lewis puts it, that they become relativists.

The practice made the West relativist and feminized.

Maybe you are just a hell of a guy, but, you sound more like an angry relativist to me.

As for the book itself, it is positively brim - full of cogent analysis on how Roe, Casey, and Stenberg, e.g., are the inevitable sequelae of relativist assumptions planted in the law a long time ago.

These «benevolent but un-comfortable relativists» tended to «believe that morality was a «sometimes» thing.

The similarity between Cox's attitude here and the one he criticizes in his students a few pages before is striking: his reservations notwithstanding, Cox appears to be one of the many «benevolent relativists» of Harvard Yard.

This is not to say that ironists are mere relativists or «flabby pluralists,» unable to take a stand on anything because one opinion is just as good as the other.

He has appropriately harsh things to say about the contemporary Protestant world's capitulation to the mindless relativists and the bloody - minded ideologues.

As a result, the cultural relativist tends to lose sight of his concrete existence in the overwhelming preponderance of the collectivity.

And Grant Wacker chronicles the rise of true pluralism: the recognition by the establishment of the validity of other religions to the point that it turned relativist, supertolerant, nonmissionary.

Indeed, he was careful to avoid constructing his political theory on non-cognitivist or relativist premises.

There is general hostility from the Catholic Church towards us, but they support the morally relativist and Islamist - friendly Partito Democratico.»

This thesis aims to counteract the prevalent relativist evaluation (de-valuation) of human thought as «sound and fury, signifying nothing» most powerfully articulated by Nietzche.

I think the issue you raised about relativist truth touches on the truth while completely overlooking it.

This liberal relativist bs is making me sick!

Nor is it the case that nice - God believers (who are usually relativists) do not try to convert others.

Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap., accused Balthasar of being a Hegelian relativist who «smuggles into the heart of the Catholic a serious doubt about the truth of the Catholic faith.»

It was that their theory of value makes monsters of all who live it to its logical conclusion, be they angry German socialists or merely clever American relativists.

Two philosophers from Oxford and Cambridge respectively, Simon Blackburn and Leslie Green, presented the main argument against the validity of Pope Benedict's phrase, simply pointing out that in practice very few people at present are radically relativist in all morality to the point of being anarchic and care-less of cruelty.

Now with the very strong tests of the Equivalence Principle which have been done it is impossible to have this, so one has to presuppose a General Relativist view of the way space - time is, where there is no natural definition of simultaneity relative to an observer.

At the time when Whitehead was writing The Concept of Nature, and also when he was thinking about the theory of Relativity, it was still possible to adhere to a Special Relativist view of the Universe.

Professor Meilaender believes that Wilson is something of a confused relativist whose view of the moral life is not that different from the understanding of Richard Rorty.

However, the brilliance (or, I should say, one aspect of the brilliance) of The Moral Sense that Professor Meilaender misses is the way in which Wilson maintains an objective view of morality that answers the tired relativist cliche which Joseph Adelson writing in Commentary calls «Bongo - Bongoism» — «How can you call that aspect of morality universal if the (mythical) Bongo - Bongo tribe doesn't practice it?»

Since Francis is not a doctrinal relativist, he does not hold the truth itself to be variable with time and place, but only its formulations, urging an expansion of its expression, namely, «seeking ways of expressing unchanging truths in a language which brings out their abiding newness.»

Lawrence cites Fortin's capacity for friendship to explain «why the anti-philosophical and relativist climate of opinion didn't engulf [Fortin] too.»

Without directly addressing this and changing (challenging) it with a contrary vision of truth, culture, revelation, and faith, the concepts of Catholic Modernity and Sacramental Imagination can themselves be simply absorbed by the secular relativist mind that they are seeking to engage with and ultimately overcome.