Saturday, September 08, 2012

(CR) Relativism and Toleration

In this week's essay, Zangwill offers two arguments against a relativistic account of our judgment of taste (the latter undermining relativism's claim to a kind of democratic toleration of all possible points of view (section 1.2)).  Here's an online essay in which I labor to disassociate relativism (in the guise of radical constructivism, a theory we will discuss later in the course) from toleration:

http://www.kjf.ca/86-87-C4JO.htm

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