Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Critique of Ethical Relativism: Value-Blindness and Other Arguments Cover Image

Dietricha von Hildebranda krytyka relatywizmu etycznego: ślepota na wartość i inne argumenty
Dietrich von Hildebrand’s Critique of Ethical Relativism: Value-Blindness and Other Arguments

Author(s): Leszek Kopciuch
Subject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Ethics / Practical Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: value; axiological relativism; value-blindness; absolutism

Summary/Abstract: Dietrich von Hildebrand is a representative of 20th-century absolutism in axiology and ethics. In this paper I demonstrate the main arguments he gave against ethical relativism. These are: emotional cognition of values, axiological blindness (full constitutive value-blindness, partial value-blindness, blindness of subsumption), immanent contradiction of all relativism and some particular arguments against axiological relativism and subjectivism.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: XXVI
  • Page Range: 175-189
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish