What Happens When We Adopt Relativism?

In this episode of the Apologetics.com radio show, Dr. Harry Edwards, Lenny Esposito (vice-president of The Kirkwood Center) and I (Anthony) discussed the problem with adopting an attitude of worldview relativism in our culture. This episode was motivated by the comments and controversy surrounding Dr. Claudine Gay, former president of Harvard University. Can a culture survive without any sense of a transcendent, universal and culturally irrelevant code of conduct? Or are all truth claims relative to persons and cultures, and, if so, are all equally valid?

In this episode we tackle:

1. The controversy over Claudine Gay’s comments on the October 7th attacks on Israel
2. Issues concerning worldview relativism
3. Are all claims to truth “power claims?”
4. If elite universities really hold to “DEI” then why are they so demagogic about who speaks on their campuses?
5. Is knowledge about truth or about power?
6. Can knowledge by bought and sold?

From the episode description:

“The October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas has shed a light on what it means to tell the truth. Leaders, including presidents of elite universities across America have had to come to the painful realization that not stating what a thing is brings disastrous consequences, i.e. antisemitism, violence, redefinition of truth, etc.Listen as Dr. Harry Edwards, Tony Costello, and Lenny Esposito discuss what happens when a society embraces relativism.”