Relativism....

Relativism is not my desire to prefer my mother-in-law above others who are not related to me, it's the philosophical idea that there is no absolute truth. The truth (or right and wrong) of a statement or proposition or creed, is at least partly dependent on context. It's been around at least since the ancient Greeks (but probably from Eden), and it's most familiar modern form is the post modernism that holds sway in most Social Science departments (and many theology ones too?). However, it suffers from the following key weakness. If I can fairly sum it up by saying "There's no such thing as absolute truth" then that statement itself cannot be absolutely true. Therefore there must be circumstances in which there is such a thing as absolute truth. Whether it is findable or knowable is a separate issue. But you cannot deny its existence. Not an original argument I know (Popper did something similar with Logical Positivism), but interesting none-the-less.