"Hey, don't judge." We hear those words a lot. But it takes real commitment to say them while staring at 130 thousand murder victims. Imagine walking into the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan in the ...

One of the books I often recommend to readers is 2009’s The Wayfinders, which is the published collection of anthropologist Wade Davis’s Massey lectures. In those lectures — which is to say, in that ...

A central argument of this article is that Isaiah Berlin's notion of cultural pluralism can be described as relativistic, and that he should not have repudiated the relativism, but simply defended it ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study seeks to define universal standards of human rights within a cross-cultural context. It begins with a review of three positions in ...

Most of you, no doubt, have heard the term “moral relativism.” Moral relativism is the belief that that are no “universal or absolute moral principles” and that essentially anyone’s values are as good ...

Supporters of President Donald Trump join in prayer outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2021, where U.S. Congress will meet in joint session to certify the Electoral College vote for ...

Addressing a group of American bishops from Indianapolis, Chicago and Milwaukee, Pope John Paul II spoke about the urgency of confronting the spirit of agnosticism and relativism with the Gospel.

So, here’s a sort of embarrassing confession: It wasn’t until the eighth grade that I realized Thanksgiving was only celebrated in the United States. I realize that should have been obvious — why ...