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Infants on Thrones

Ep 523 – Smackdown: A Manual for Creating Atheists, Part 4 – RELATIVISM

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2018

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

What is relativism?  Is it okay for anyone to believe anything that they want?  Where do you draw the line between what is okay to critique and what is off limits?  Today Glenn, Matt, Tom, Delany, and Chelsea discuss RELATIVISM.

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0:00.0

This is infants on Thrones, the philosophies of men,

0:06.0

mingled with humans.

0:08.5

We are the core of them. We're I'm Glenn Ostland and this is part four of our series on a manual for creating

0:26.3

atheists. Now as it stands right now I expect that there will be a part five of the

0:30.8

series where we look at a street epistemologist YouTube video

0:35.5

featuring a treatment that's being applied to Mormon missionaries.

0:40.0

Now we're actually going to be recording that discussion tonight, which is Sunday, September 23rd at 10 PM Eastern.

0:47.0

Patreon supporters are able to sit in and participate as well if they'd like, so check the details on our patron page if you're

0:53.6

interested and there will probably be an eventual part six of this series as well

0:58.8

where I talk with one or two of these YouTube Street Epistemologists and we wrap up this series. But today

1:04.7

we're going to talk about relativism which is really what kicked the series off

1:09.9

in the first place. Hey infants, as I listen to recent episodes of your podcast, I get the impression that many of you

1:18.6

have become relativists.

1:21.7

This type of thinking seems, at least to me, to be voiced often lately, though I may just be reaching because this has been a topic often on my mind in the recent weeks. I've read a manual for creating atheist by

1:36.7

Peter Bagozian in which he rips apart relativism and goes through how to teach people that relativism is not a reliable

1:46.4

way of processing the world.

1:48.7

I'm currently reading the righteous mind by Jonathan Hyde, which so far feels like he believes relativism is a great mindset,

1:55.9

though I haven't finished the book yet.

1:58.0

I know Glenn loves this book and he probably has good insight to this.

2:02.1

I think a podcast on relativism would be a fascinating discussion.

2:06.4

Let me know if you already released an episode on this and I just missed the boat. I would love to listen.

2:10.5

Thanks, Ben. Now I'm going to be completely honest with you.

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