Fish weighs in

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>New York Times - October 15, 2001
>
>Condemnation Without Absolutes
>BY STANLEY FISH
>
>... But if by relativism one means the practice of putting yourself in
>your adversary's shoes, not in order to wear them as your own but in
>order to have some understanding (far short of approval) of why
>someone else might want to wear them, then relativism will not and
>should not end, because it is simply another name for serious thought.

Beautifully put.

Carl
>
>Stanley Fish, dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences at the
>University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author, most recently, of
>"How Milton Works."

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