Those chapters use gender issues to illustrate the conflict between universalism and cultural relativism. |
There are important differences between Protagoras' relativism and the Cyrenaics ' subjectivism. |
I do think we have to tackle the issue of relativism, of subjectivity, of all the modern isms including postmodernism. |
It defends the general reliability, corrigibility, and progressiveness of empirical knowledge against relativism and skepticism. |
Taking fallibilism seriously heads off the charge that contextualism encourages strongly anti-rationalist positions such as relativism. |
The cynicism of many claims of cultural relativism can also be seen in the fact that far too often they are for foreign consumption only. |