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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (1164)	9/29/2000 12:44:51 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

It isn't the relative nature of the belief itself,that makes one a relativist, it is whether the belief is HELD relatively, that makes one a relativist. Hitler was not a relativist. He was sure he had the right answers. Certainty is one of the keys to relativism. OR at least in the definition of relativism I am aware of.

To: Solon who wrote (1164)	9/29/2000 12:48:26 AM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 28931

Relative beliefs have no connotation of reason. Relative beliefs can derive from any source unless you wish to clarify your philosophy. I think you have hit it with the second part, but I disagree with the first part. One's reasons may be very parochial and limited in scope. As far as their data goes they may be true which is why one can get some really strange results out of relativism. Absolutists argue that there is something perfect out there, but will always lack proof of its universality. This is why I think relativists who persuade generally feel they have the obligation to show their work, as it were. Don't you have to be relative to something to be relative? It is only when a relative principle violates my sphere that I would even take exception to another's belief on a personal level. On an intellectual level, I might challenge it to test it, but that's a different story...