The source for this blog post is the summary of our responses ("Summary," 2016) to the survey we did today to start our discussion of Stephen Law's "Into the Lair of the Relativist" (2003).
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My Yes/No question is:
Are your classmates right?
My answer is:
No, at least some of the answers given seem wrong to me, although it's possible that I'm wrong and those answers are right.
And now I'm worried that my Yes/No answer above makes me sound like a relativist. Does it?
In our initial discussion of the results this morning, we saw that a substantial majority of the class think that relativism is right, and that the non-relativists are wrong. (Or do they think anti-relativists are wrong?)
There also seemed to be some agreement that Muslims, and perhaps religions generally, are definitely not relativist in teaching and that their followers are not relativists.
As you look over the results of our survey, does anything else seem to you perhaps mistaken or worth discussing for any other reason?
And does the majority of our class agree or disagree with Stephen Law?
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Reference
Law, S. (2003). Into the lair of the relativist. In The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking [Kindle edition] (pp. 46 - 57). St. Martin's Press. Available from http://www.amazon.com/
Summary: 15 Responses. (2016, May 23). Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1rZCO8aTCxz_LBJPGZFd1UFjLUf4DURfrN-KhVw9_Pyw/viewanalytics
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