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... situations makes for oversimplification ; insensitivity to the new which time feeds into life and history produces ... situation will be different in ways which may be important . The strength of absolutism lies in its strong sense of ...
... situations makes for oversimplification ; insensitivity to the new which time feeds into life and history produces ... situation will be different in ways which may be important . The strength of absolutism lies in its strong sense of ...
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... situation for which it is proposed , its weakness lies in its failure to tell us precisely what feature of the situation the value is relative to . For " the situation " is anything but a precise referent . Faced with no standard but ...
... situation for which it is proposed , its weakness lies in its failure to tell us precisely what feature of the situation the value is relative to . For " the situation " is anything but a precise referent . Faced with no standard but ...
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... situation , what is of value for that situation will also be different . But having granted this , objective relativism then goes on to agree with abso- lutism ( 1 ) that the question of what is good in any given situation is a question ...
... situation , what is of value for that situation will also be different . But having granted this , objective relativism then goes on to agree with abso- lutism ( 1 ) that the question of what is good in any given situation is a question ...
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PART | 5 |
OBJECTIVITY VERSUS COMMITMENT | 30 |
FREEDOM VERSUS AUTHORITY | 59 |
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