Well, if you believe you exist I think that would be an absolute truth. For example, if I told you that you were a unicorn dreaming it was a person, and you told me I was wrong, then "I exist" is an absolute truth. Even one truth is one too many for relativism.
I would agree Catholicism is quite different than relativism. It wasn't easy for me to accept a number of Catholic teachings, and I spent some time as a teen trying to research my way out of it. I only ended up more convinced.
Posted using Partiko Android
I made an article where I talk about what you said.
Cogito, ergo sum — The meaning behind "I think; therefore, I exist"
For me, relativism is about the rest of the truths. I cannot be sure of the absolute existence of other people, of rules, patterns and everything studied by science, of anything I perceive, but I cannot deny that I perceive, or at least I think that I do, and therefore thought exists, and I have an abstract conception of myself, of self-identity (I identify as myself), so I exist, because "I" is just a word that denotes the abstract perception of the self as an individual, which is precisely what I perceive.
As I can only be certain of two things (existence of thought and myself as an abstraction of identity), such a strict definition of relativism where you can't be sure of even one truth isn't very adjusted to reality. If my philosophical views can't be called relativism, then I don't know any other name for them (relativistic solipsism or something like that, perhaps).
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit