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The Relativistic View
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The Relativistic View
In psychology, the relativistic view stipulates that a sole point of view cannot be used to establish the ideal truth but is relative depending on the prevailing perceptions and opinions (Turner, 2019). Subsequently, the relativistic view asserts that distinguishing the truth from false and right from wrong should be based on diverse frameworks used to assess different contexts such as cultures, language, and the prevailing circumstances (Turner, 2019). Hence, the relativistic view outlines that what may be considered right in one context may be wrong in another different context. The relativistic view significantly differs from the standard view based on the contexts used to distinguish the true belief from the wrong belief. Contrary to the relativistic view’s stipulation on the truth or false depending on the specific context at hand, the standard view asserts that the truth is justified by knowledge. Thus, in the relativistic view, truth is based on context, while it is based on knowledge in the standard view.
Richard Feldman challenges the relativistic view by asserting that the standard view can be used to establish people’s diverse opinions about the past and the future in mathematics and science (Irfankhawaja, 2017). Feldman’s standard view contradicts the relativistic view based on its foundational beliefs that knowledge combines a person’s perception, reasoning, memory, and rational insight (Irfankhawaja, 2017). Although Feldman’s standard view and the relativistic view differ on the foundational concepts, both agree that the distinction between truth and false is justifiable based on context or knowledge concepts.
The relativism view is correct as it is based on the diverse contexts that can distinguish correct belief from wrong. Fundamentally, the diverse contexts are ideal determinants of different beliefs and opinions have towards issues. I believe that moral relativism is correct as it depicts that morality should be based on diverse contexts since actions deemed morally correct in one culture may be wrong in another culture. Indeed, Feldman’s incorporation of the knowledge concept being a key determinant to peoples’ beliefs and opinions is logical.
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Irfankhawaja, J. (2017, August 21). The standard view in philosophy. The Institute for Objectivist Studies. Retrieved November 25, 2021, from https://instituteforobjectiviststudies.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/the-standard-view-in-philosophy/.
Turner, S. (2019). Relativism in the social sciences. In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism (pp. 416-424). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781351052306-45/relativism-social-sciences-stephen-turner
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