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... positions to see if each has not laid hold of something of lasting importance . Perhaps when the core of truth in each position is isolated , clarified , and stripped of over- statement and misunderstanding , it will be found to be ...
... positions to see if each has not laid hold of something of lasting importance . Perhaps when the core of truth in each position is isolated , clarified , and stripped of over- statement and misunderstanding , it will be found to be ...
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... position of complete value nominalism . If value nominalism is the upshot of objective relativism , some- thing is drastically wrong with the concept , for order in man's life is completely dependent upon the possibility of significant ...
... position of complete value nominalism . If value nominalism is the upshot of objective relativism , some- thing is drastically wrong with the concept , for order in man's life is completely dependent upon the possibility of significant ...
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... position which not so much avoids the extremes of the other two as spreads to embrace what is valid in each . This third position is objective relativism . With relativism it acknowledges that there are no values that are unaffected by ...
... position which not so much avoids the extremes of the other two as spreads to embrace what is valid in each . This third position is objective relativism . With relativism it acknowledges that there are no values that are unaffected by ...
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PART | 5 |
OBJECTIVITY VERSUS COMMITMENT | 30 |
FREEDOM VERSUS AUTHORITY | 59 |
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