Paganism vs Relativism - What's the difference?
paganism | relativism |
Indigenous and polytheistic religions.
A class of religions often associated with nature rituals.
(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 paganism and relativism
is that paganism is indigenous and polytheistic religions 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.paganism
English
(wikipedia paganism)Noun
- Most people in that region practise their own form of paganism .
- While paganism is a broad term, most forms pay close attention to the lunar and solar cycles.
See also
* Christianity * heathen * heathendom * heathenism * gentilerelativism
English
(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.
