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Relativism and Cultural Universals
Notes for my video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHQcainyoBo Let’s start again from the conclusions of my last video, the one about a world tailored to idiots: man as the measure of all things. Some well-meaning souls have ironically dismissed that conclusion, thinking that Protagoras’ statement is somehow banal and taken for granted, if not outright obvious. Nothing could be further from the truth. The concept expressed by the philosopher of Abdera, considered by some to be the first historical example of a relativistic view of reality, is very present in the history of thought and has been interpreted in many ways, often contradictory. If indeed man is the measure of all things, thus…