Relativism E-Book

Gian Paolo Prandstraller

• Herausgeber: CLEUP
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Absolute does not exist. Nothing is everlasting, stable, final. Everything is transient, relative and surmountable. Contemporary man needs to understand that such is the reality surrounding him and that he must go with the time and adjust his life to it. Science is a powerful means of achieving such a result, because it grants a better life, can fight pain, gives new value to pleasure, helps to overcome the fear of dying. The essence of this book is an epistemology and an ethics which are consistent with our times.

Leseprobe

Gian Paolo Prandstraller

RELATIVISM

WITH THE ESSAY

ART AS CREATIVE VISUALIZATION

Traduzione di Francesca Diano

Prima edizione: luglio 2017

ISBN 978 88 6787 795 9

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© 2015 Gian Paolo Prandstraller

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INTRODUCTION

The two essays collected in this little book deal with different subjects, yet they are both addressing some deep needs of contemporary man.

The first essay, On Ancient and Modern Relativism, hinges on the kind of philosophy, which clever people of our time are more and more frequently adopting, in order to live through its powerful dynamics and recurrent crises without suffering too much damage. If we were to express it with one word, we could define this philosophy as “relativism”. The essay is in fact introduced by its definition and, while starting from the description of the more ancient phases of such current of thought, it will extend to our present time.