Monism vs Relativism - What's the difference?
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The doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world.
(uncountable, philosophy) The theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.
(countable, philosophy) A specific such theory, advocated by a particular philosopher or school of thought.
* 2008 , Paul Boghossian, “Replies to Wright, MacFarlane and Sosa,” Philosophical Studies , vol. 141, no. 3, p. 413:
As nouns the difference between monism and relativism
is that monism is the doctrine of the oneness and unity of reality, despite the appearance of diversity in the world while relativism is (uncountable|philosophy) the theory, especially in ethics or aesthetics, that conceptions of truth and moral values are not absolute but are relative to the persons or groups holding them.monism
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(wikipedia monism)Noun
See also
* dualism * pluralismrelativism
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(wikipedia relativism)Noun
- Following Gilbert Harman’s lead, my own formulation of relativism' about the normative domain was based on the classic examples of thoroughgoing ' relativisms drawn from physics.
