A Companion to Relativism by Hales Steven D.;

Author:Hales, Steven D.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2011-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

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Secularism, Liberalism, and Relativism

AKEEL BILGRAMI

Abstract

This chapter explores the issue of relativism in ethics and politics by looking to a specific form of ethical and political conflict – secular liberalism versus identity politics mobilized on religious identity – and asking whether only certain forms of “externalism” about reason and value (in Bernard Williams’s sense of that term) can repudiate relativism. It is argued that this need not be so. There is scope for turning one’s back on relativism even within what Williams calls “internalism” about reason and value.

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