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Talk:Moral relativity (view source)
Revision as of 18:40, September 22, 2007
, 18:40, September 22, 2007Let's look up "Metaphor"
This topic should probably become a subsection of [[Moral relativism]], as that (short) article at least defines the term, whereas this article appears to be solely concerned with the relationship between moral relativism and the Theory of Relativity.Jesus Saves 19:51, 26 July 2007 (EDT)
This topic should probably become a subsection of [[Moral relativism]], as that (short) article at least defines the term, whereas this article appears to be solely concerned with the relationship between moral relativism and the Theory of Relativity.Jesus Saves 19:51, 26 July 2007 (EDT)
== Let's look up "[[Metaphor]]" ==
The source "invokes" the Theory of Relativity in the same sense that Intelligent Design invokes watches: It doesn't. It gives a metaphor (from the CP article, emphasis mine: "A metaphor is a part of speech in which two objects are compared, but '''without directly comparing them'''") for moral relativism by showing how Relativity changed the way we look at the universe.
I read the linked article, and I cannot comprehend how the Theory of Relativity (1) "generated a huge following by advocates of moral relativism", (2) is invoked "in attempts to lend legitimacy to this version of morality", or (3) was seized by advocates "to legitimize their views".
You might as well insert any other example of how a relative model replaced an absolute one. As a matter of fact, the source does just that: Before it even touches things like the speed of light, it shows how people first thought the Earth to be the center of the universe before accepting the Sun as the center (and later on correcting that idea, too): "''Relativity precedes Einstein. Actually it is the heart of the theoretical revolution of Copernicus and Galileo.''"
I suggest we merely transform this article into a redirect to [[Moral relativism]] and maybe use the source to simply give examples of how relativism replaced absolute models in some areas of science. --[[User:Jenkins|Jenkins]] 14:40, 22 September 2007 (EDT)