Here might be a book worth reading, 'The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America':
It’s the liberal belief that there are no absolutes and no Truth. That’s why relativism is the central idea of today’s “culture war.” They say there are only our own personal “values” that reflect our interests, prejudices, and desires. This idea seemed to explode onto the American scene in the 1960s, with the moral code, “If it feels good, do it.” But its roots lie farther back in American history. After the Civil War, American philosophers (centered at Harvard) began to build the intellectual and moral system that produced the Clinton/Baby Boomer ethos, the kind that is never “judgmental” and disputes the meaning of the word “is.” The abandonment of both religious and philosophical absolutes was a worldwide phenomenon. The American style of relativism came to be called “pragmatism.” http://www.massnews.com/2002_editions/03_Mar/302harvard.htm ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
