Reflection on the Book “Relativism as a disease of contemporary philosophy”

Abstract

The paper is reviewing the content of the book "Relativism as a disease of contemporary philosophy" (Rep. Ed. V.A.Lektorsky). Authors of the book analyze the main problems associated with the trend of relativization in the processes of cognition and in the modern epistemology. The authors identify different types and kinds of relativism, emphasizing the need to separate knowledge from opinion, truth from error and lies in order to show that the knowledge should not be reduced to the “situated knowledge”. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of relativistic tendencies in the development of science and in the modeling of the culture development.