Relativism, part 1


	Relativism, part 1

Efrain Alvarado

10-24-2007 12:40 AM

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relativism, catholic, philosophy

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10-24-2007 3:07 AM

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"everything is a parody of everything else": Georges Bataille

10-24-2007 10:49 PM

Efrain Alvarado

"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as for certain and has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires as the final measure." Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

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