relativist
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- noun
- /ˈrɛlətɪvɪst/
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relativista
- Are you an absolutist or a relativist, ideal or practical in your worldly posture?
- cultural relativist
- ethical relativist
- relativist position
If you're kind of a moral relativist, then you have this idea that you know what whatever people say is good is what's good.
- If you're kind of a moral relativist, then you have this idea that you know what whatever people say is good is what's good.
Examples
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As a committed relativist, she argued that moral standards vary from culture to culture.
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Happiness, therefore, has objective content; it is not the relativist construct of individual human beings.
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If you're kind of a moral relativist, then you have this idea that you know what whatever people say is good is what's good.
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A cultural relativist might respond to this tale by commenting on differences in cultural values.
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Both the cultural relativists and the liberal universalists seem to have it only half right.
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Upon return, feminists encountered cultural relativist justifications at best; at worst, they were quite simply ignored.
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An ethical relativist is in the habit of adding relativizing clauses to his ethical judgments.
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Many relativists believe that the interpretation of truth depends on individual perspectives.
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The philosophy class explored the ideas of a relativist who claimed that absolute truths do not exist.
Synonyms
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A person who believes truth and values depend on personal experience or perception
A person who believes truth depends on their point of view
Someone who believes truth depends on each person's view
Antonyms
How Relativist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Relativist comes from relative ('depending on') plus -ist ('a person who holds a view'), so a relativist is someone who believes that truth or morals change with context. This explains why a relativist usually avoids saying one rule fits all people or places.