{"id":2582,"date":"2021-05-16T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/16\/student-relativism\/"},"modified":"2021-05-16T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T14:09:18","slug":"student-relativism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/16\/student-relativism\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Relativism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">From my first weblog, dated 28 September 2004:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Student relativism&#0160; is not so much a philosophical theory as a form of psychic insulation. An outgrowth of adolescent rebelliousness, it says: &quot;You can&#39;t teach me anything because truth is relative; we all have our own truths.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Not being a philosophical theory, Student Relativism cannot be refuted in the usual ways. It is a pathology that must be outgrown. Unfortunately, we live in a society in which adolescence in many extends into the twenties, thirties, and beyond. Some remain life-long adolescents in their mentality. Many if not most of these characters are found on the Left.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my first weblog, dated 28 September 2004: Student relativism&#0160; is not so much a philosophical theory as a form of psychic insulation. An outgrowth of adolescent rebelliousness, it says: &quot;You can&#39;t teach me anything because truth is relative; we all have our own truths.&quot; Not being a philosophical theory, Student Relativism cannot be refuted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2021\/05\/16\/student-relativism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Student Relativism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relativism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}