Towards a Theory of Relativity of Truth in Morality and ReligionThis study argues for a model in which moral truth is presented as truth in the perspective of certain social commitments, while religious truth is interpreted as truth in the perspective of religious experience. It theorizes that relativity need not conflict with universality. Truth from the perspective of the outsider is, therefore, truth without qualification. |
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Page 147 - Sorri and Jerry Gill, A Post-Modern Epistemology: Language, Truth, and Body 20. Adolf Portmann, Essays in Philosophical Zoology By Adolf Portmann: The Living Form and The Seeing Eye, Richard B. Carter (trans.) 21. George Englebretson, Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Summers: In Logical Terms 22.