Philosophy

Relativism As a First Principle

And why drugs isn’t inherently good or bad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagoras — Protagoras

Keywords and ideas

1. Relativism → perspectives change depending on multiple factors e.g. place, time, person;
2. Universality → the things are the same throughout this whole universe e.g. the laws of physics;
3. Black-and-white thinking → splitting (psychology) → the things are either like this or that and nothing in between;
4. Drugs (and many other things) → are not inherently good or bad, it depends;
5. Relativistic factors → can be objective and subjective.

Abstract

Protagoras used to say:

“Man is the measure of all things”,

which was a revolutionary thought at that time, and I think that idea should be “revolutionized” even more. In this chapter I want to talk about relativism and how it is applicable to many things, things where many people have a black-and-white perspective about.

Relativism

Relativism means that perspectives, feelings, and opinions change depending on whom you are, what you value, where you are, when etc. In physics, this is called reference…