ESCAPING FROM THE MORASS

A CRITICAL SURVEY OF RELATIVISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

Abstract

A prima facie look at relativism, even from the perspective of the most honest inquirer, often appears to be quite the seducer. The aim of this paper is to present a defence of a realist position pertaining to knowledge to show that relativism is in fact self-referentially incoherent and cannot be defended objectively; furthermore, my focus shall be a criticism of relativism in general but, more specifically, relativism in the landscape of epistemology.