Thursday, February 6, 2014

Relativism

Relativism is a theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them,all points of view are equally valid and criteria of judgment vary with individuals and their environments.
Although there are many different kinds of relativism, they all have two features in common.
(1) They all assert that one thing (e.g. moral values, beauty, knowledge, taste, or meaning) is relative to some particular framework or standpoint (e.g. the individual subject, a culture, an era, a language, or a conceptual scheme).
(2) They all deny that any standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others.
Buddhism is an example of relativism as the Buddhist have their own different religious rituals, beliefs and ideas about the world and life unlike other religions.  

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