Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Yoav Ariel, Shlomo Biderman, and Ornan Rotem -- Preface / Yoav Ariel, Shlomo Biderman, and Ornan Rotem -- Richard Rorty on Reality and Justification / Hilary Putnam -- In Defense of Dogma / Anat Biletzki and Anat Matar -- Beyond Relativism / Frits Staal -- Leaving Relativism / Arnold Berleant -- Value Free Social Science / Haim Marantz -- Reason within the Limits of Religion Alone: the Case of Maimonides / Joseph Agassi -- Transcendental Arguments and Dialectical Failures / Paul J. Griffiths -- The Big Sleep / Yoav Ariel and Shlomo Biderman -- Doubt, Despair and Ataraxia: A Very Philosophical Interpretation of Kierkegaard’s ‘Christianity’ / Ornan Rotem -- On the Relativism of a Typology / James L. Jarrett -- Saving the Holocaust Witness / Nathaniel Laor -- A Balancing Conclusion / Ben-Ami Scharfstein -- Contributors / Yoav Ariel, Shlomo Biderman, and Ornan Rotem -- Index of Names / Yoav Ariel, Shlomo Biderman, and Ornan Rotem -- Philosophy and Religion / F. Deutsch, H.D. Lewis, B.K. Matilal, F. Rosenthal, N. Sivin, N. Smart, and R.J.Z. Werblowsky.

At the end of the millennium, the dominant philosophical mood is relativistic. Ideals, opinions, and values are rarely judged in absolute or universal terms. Instead, subjective views are juxtaposed and assessed in relation to one another and none is accepted finally in and for itself but characterized in relation to its whole environment. In this collection of essays, philosophers of widely divergent views and emphases try to assess the tension between relativism and absolutism in the general domains of philosophy and religion. In the closing section of the book, an extensive article tries to integrate the responses to the whole problem and advance beyond the simple anithesis of the relative and the absolute.

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