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- 1From:Natural History (Vol. 129, Issue 7)The theory of ethical relativism posits that morality is relative to the norms of one's society and culture. While professional baseball--the quintessential American game--mostly reflects the norms of our larger culture,...
- 2From:Skeptical Inquirer (Vol. 46, Issue 6)Is there such a concept as absolute truth? Most scientists appreciate that there are proven physical principles and laws that could be considered absolutes, even including, paradoxically, the theories of special and...
- 3From:The New York Times MagazineIf, in politics, words are weapons, they often prove themselves double-edged. So it was when, on the summer night that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez learned that she had won a Democratic congressional primary over a 10-term...
- 4From:ProtoView9781350083622 An Ethical Guidebook to the Zombie Apocalypse: How to Keep Your Brain Without Losing Your Heart Bryan Hall Bloomsbury 2020 224 pages $19.95 BJ1025 Using the popular zombie invasion...
- 5From:Christianity Today (Vol. 61, Issue 3)Elvis. Tupac. The ivory-billed woodpecker. Sometimes it's hard to let go and acknowledge when a celebrity or a species has left us. Christians find it particularly hard to come to terms with the passing of the "moral...
- 6From:Christianity Today (Vol. 38, Issue 7)Christians should combat the ethical relativism of postmodern philosophy which feeds the political correctness trend. Postmodern thought is irreligious, because it denies the notion of universal truth. What is...
- 7From:Commonweal (Vol. 138, Issue 5)Is sexual activity morally right or wrong? Most people would say, "It all depends." The church says it depends on whether you are alone or with someone, whether you and that someone are of different sexes and married,...
- 8From:The American Spectator (Vol. 45, Issue 7)ANY CONSERVATIVE who expends energy denouncing relativism is wasting his time fighting the last war. Relativism was quite a force for evil in its day, but the vitality has gone out of it. The villain that once needed an...
- 9From:The Humanist (Vol. 56, Issue 4)Christian fundamentalists often condemn liberals and secular humanists for living by a creed of moral relativism. There is nothing wrong with moral relativism, which merely posits that there is often more than one...
- 10From:Public Relations Quarterly (Vol. 51, Issue 1)In an era of increased visibility of organizational malfeasance, public relations ethics is obviously more important than ever. The use of ethical simulations and ethics "minutes" are explored as a means of educating...
- 11From:Commonweal (Vol. 124, Issue 2)The excommunication of Sri Lankan theologian Tissa Balasuriya raised concerns about relativism in the Church. Relativism is the tendency of many Catholics to read truths based on multiple limited expressions. Catholics...
- 12From:Newsweek International (Vol. 151, Issue 4)Readers of our Dec. 3 profile of Rudy Giuliani questioned his electability. One said, "Haven't we had enough of the politics of fear and divisiveness?" But another observed, "Giuliani's intense mix of moral certitude...
- 13From:ProtoView9781446274149 Ethics Theory & Business Practice Mick Fryer SAGE 2015 458 pages $165.00 Hardcover HF5387 Fryer presents students, academics, and professionals working in a variety of contexts...
- 14From:National Right to Life News (Vol. 35, Issue 5)Our intellectually inch-deep media could not really have been expected to report the thoughtful messages Pope Benedict XVI conveyed to the U.S. public during his April visit. It's far easier for reporters to speak of...
- 15From:Midstream (Vol. 49, Issue 4)Despite its poor manufacture, our Movement bulletin had a powerful message. Strong in leftist thought, its writers were particularly adept at dialectical reasoning. They discussed anything and everything--from nuclear...
- 16From:The Christian Century (Vol. 119, Issue 20)ROBERT GAGNON and Walter Wink disagree about moral or ethical relativism and the gospel of Christ (See "Gays and the Bible," Aug. 14-27, and "To hell with gays?," June 5-12). Wink says that the Bible "clearly"...
- 17From:Christianity Today (Vol. 37, Issue 14)Christian college administrators are restricting academic discussions because they are frightened by growing influences of secular pluralism and relativism. The evangelical community must encourage scholarship in all...
- 18From:Christianity Today (Vol. 37, Issue 13)Four myths threaten spirituality worldwide because they lead people into self-deception and subvert truths through relativism. Radical individualism, morality, modernity and the basic goodness of humanity are discussed....
- 19From:NewsweekByline: Alison Hornstein On the morning of September 11, my entire college campus huddled around television sets, our eyes riveted in horror to images of the burning, then falling, Twin Towers. By evening there were...
- 20From:National Catholic Reporter (Vol. 32, Issue 44)Ratzinger agrees that Liberation Theology is dying along with marxism, as people see that salivation is not political. Relativism, the idea that no one can be said to know the true way, is the real problem of the...