Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Relativism

  • Einstein, Relativity, and Relativism

    A correspondent writes: British (Catholic) historian Paul Johnson in his wonderful Modern Times attributes relativism's rise to Einstein! So does Einstein's latest biographer. There are two questions that must be distinguished. The first is whether Einstein's Theory of Relativity entails either moral or cognitive (alethic) relativism. The second question is whether Einstein's revolutionary contributions to…