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Often we criticize somebodys view of things by saying its just their view of things, implying that our own view of things is something more than a view. If something is only a matter of perspective or opinion, it differs from things that can be known properly, perhaps by science or some other public standard.
The problem is that, since all knowledge and judgment proceed from some perspective or other, theres nothing incomplete or inadequate about partial views and opinions. Theyre counterbalanced not by something objective or context-free but simply by opposite views and opinions. Many people find this claim threatening, as though their own judgments couldnt be valid unless they were objective and context-free.
Join us as we talk through why this claim doesnt need to be threatening, why it makes no sense to posit absolutes we could check ourselves against, and why every perspective matters
as much (or as little) as every other.
Sponsor: McCarthy & Trinka Insurance
Stephen Walker is a PhD candidate at University of Chicago Divinity School studying philosophy and the history of philosophy across multiple traditions. His main research focuses on classical Chinese thought; his dissertation, Boundless Ways: Navigating Norms in the Zhuangzi, examines that text's pragmatic and pluralistic critique of value.
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