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...admiring piece about Graham Greene and his commitment to understand every position and even sympathize with an enemy [Essay, Feb. 20], Pico Iyer reveals both the implications and the presuppositions of the modern relativist view. It is no surprise that placing mercy over justice would lead a man to uphold someone like Soviet double agent Kim Philby, an operative of the bloodiest dictatorship in history, and receive no moral condemnation for it. What may not be obvious, though, is how the lack of moral integrity today stems from an intellectual failure, the epistemological humility that refuses to hold anything...
...Relativist standards in the humanities make it difficult for a professor to judge one student's work as better than another's, according to Cole...
...views them. Cooper does not demonize Indians; when whole tribes are presented as villainous, this is a plot device, not a racial judgment (the French get the same treatment). Nor does Cooper worship Indians, in the manner of Dances with Wolves. Up to a point, he is a relativist. Good white men go to heaven when they die, while good Indians head for the happy hunting ground. Natty refuses to send either on their way minus scalps, because it goes against the grain of his "gifts," though he thinks it proper for Chingachgook to do so. But he recognizes...
...ideas belong to someone who's traditional, white, male, and/or heterosexual. In other words, PC means to dismiss rather than to disprove. Conservatives are not at all afraid of an open marketplace of ideas. We have always believed that our ideas are better (as I'm sure the non-relativist liberals have as well), and we desire only a level playing field. The PC phenomena forbids this opportunity...
What does a moral relativist do? If we are to take Peninsula as gospel, he--or more likely she--is a sneaky little character who has managed to worm into the Harvard bureaucracy with a detailed agenda. What precisely this agenda entails is not exactly clear, but it seems to somehow involve and effort to discredit "moral" values--i.e., those held by Peninsula, AALARM and their...