2)
Read through the questions in the assignment.
3)
Check my website (under the appropriate class title) for any hints in regard
to the questions. "Hints" refers to the notations I sometimes include that,
in a sentence or two, give you the gist of the article and or the point
of the question(s) I have asked you to read in conjunction with the required
texts. If you do not have internet access, let me know right away so I
can provide a hard copy of any hints.
4)
Read the articles and complete the assignment.
2.Define
moral relativism.
3.Explain
in your own words the three kinds of moral relativism. Give examples of
each form your own experience (or make them up).
4.How
does culture seek to dilute moral absolutes, thereby redefining morality
in relativistic terms? How has our culture succeeded in doing this?
5.How
has relativism affected our view of the sanctity / importance of life?
6.What
are some ways Beckwith and Koukl suggest for combating moral relativism?
b)
In your own words, what is postmodernism?
c)
Summarize what the author argues has caused the worldview shift in our
culture from modernism to postmodernism. Explain to what degree you follow
his argument (i.e., does his explanation make sense? Does it ring true
in the real world as you've experienced it – why or why not?)
b)
What does it mean that truth is "absolute"?
c)
Explain the importance of the law of non-contradiction and the law of the
excluded middle to the biblical view of truth specifically and the validity
of logical thought in general.
d)
Why is biblical truth an END and not a MEANS to an end?
e)
What are the "2 views of truth" (ch. 4)?
f)
In your own words, explain the correspondence view of truth.