Relativism

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Leilani Merrill

October 2020

HEGEL
-Concepts we have form the way we perceive the world.
Social character of thought
-Learned concepts from the people around us.
-What one group sees as universal another group thinks of as variable.
-What is the nature of human knowledge and human history?
Thesis- Antithesis. Synthesis
-Advocates historical relativism
-Absolute meta level laws
-Thoughts develop in certain ways.

DOSTOYEVSKY
-Order and liberty
most people want to be fed and taken care, we don’t want to grow up
-There must something outside of yourself that you’re accountable.

REALIST AND IDEALIST

Realist- The world is a certain way independent of the mind.

Idealist- Everything is based in the mind.

NIETZSCHE
-Truth is relative to a historical period
-We need to recreate our own values
-Our theories on theories keep changing
-Different conceptions of humanity, different concepts of history
-There are no eternal factors. No absolute truths.
-Think of new ways of seeing the world

Published by leilani77

I love the humanities. I studied both English and Philosophy in college. There are some thinkers and theories that make an impression on you and you have to share those theories. These ideas will be with you forever. I appreciate the dialectic theory, the constant development between two premises. I think it's the essential component to new development every day. I really like Existentialism as well. What type of Philosophy do you like? Thank you for reading.

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