When you hear the sentiment “thou shalt not be a white supremacist”—it’ll be dressed up a bit, but that’s the meaning—you can rest assured that the moral absolute being expressed here isn’t really about white supremacy. Sometimes it amounts to a form of relativism...
The so-called “wisdom” of the world is rife with incoherencies. One of the more trendy and pernicious examples of our time is transgenderism. Like relativism, transgender philosophy looks compelling, maybe even commonsense, on the surface. But when you examine it...
During the question-and-answer session after a talk I gave in Illinois, a military man posed an objection against the existence of absolute truth. It went something like this: If truth were absolute, then there wouldn’t be disagreement among people. Since there is...
Relativism is often pitched as the more tolerant worldview than views that embrace the existence of absolute truth. But is this true? In this Ready Reasons video, I show why relativism is not the friend of tolerance that relativists think it...