I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
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In its original literal sense, "moral relativism" is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one's children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a
dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an essentially religious vocabulary of absolute good and evil as the only legitimate framework for discussing social values have redefined "relative" as "arbitrary." That conflation has been reinforced by social theorists and advocates of identity politics who argue that there is no universal morality, only the value systems of particular cultures and power structures.
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Our society is not merely contending with formidable propagandists posing as "neutral" Big Media news sources; worse yet, those ultra powerful propagandists utilize every tool possible to destroy any form of compelling ideological opposition. We are truly involved in a vicious cultural war, a last stand against those who wish to eliminate all Judeo-Christian norms. It is a paradoxical battle spearheaded by two factions of antithetical zealots; on the one hand, there are those determined to impose purely relativist values, in service of the neo-gods of Atheism, consumerism, narcissism, hedonism, corporatism, materialism, and the most vacuous Cult of Celebrity; and on the other hand, there are those who seek to reshape our society under the purely absolutist, alien, values of Sharia Law. The net result: paradox upon paradox. After all, who would imagine that a day would arrive where both women and gays champion the unfettered immigration of Islamists dedicated toward the dissemination of Sharia Law that commands the subjugation of those very same women and the complete eradication of the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT)?
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I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
quote by Nathaniel Emmons
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The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
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In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an absolute are usually the same people who also pretend to be superior to the rest. To find people in our day attempting to pass off to the world and recommending to others some nostrum of the absolute which they claim to have discovered is merely a sign of the loss of and the need for intellectual and moral certainty, felt by broad sections of the population who are unable to look life in the face.
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Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
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Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
quote by John Ruskin
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
quote by Booker T. Washington
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The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
quote by Arthur Henderson
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By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
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Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority you have none.
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It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
quote by David Ben Gurion
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, ""I was wrong"".
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