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The Devil's Disguises: Philosophy of Religion, ‘Objectivity’ and ‘Cultural Divergence’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

D. Z. Phillips
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In approaching the topic, ‘Objectivity and Cultural Divergence’, there is little doubt that certain styles of philosophizing will conceive of the task confronting them as that of devising or at least calling attention to standards of rationality by which distinctions between objectivity and divergence are to be drawn. This mode of philosophizing is marked by the confidence it has in its own methods. It seldom occurs to it to question its own operations; to ask whether the heterogeneity of our culture does not itself create difficulties for the practice of philosophy. It is to such questionings as these, however, that I want to direct attention in this lecture.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 17: Objectivity and Cultural Divergence , March 1984 , pp. 61 - 77
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1984

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