Fish weighs in

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 15 15:54:35 PDT 2001


Carl Remick wrote:


>>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, have you gone postmodern on us? Things were confusing enough already!

Doug



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