Tetralogue By Timothy Williamson: A Summary

The article is a book review of an anti relativism novel ‘Tetralogue’ by Timothy Williamson. The reviewer is a proponent of the concept of relatavism and is therefore very critical of Williamson's novel. The reviewer describes relativism as when "moral judgements vary from one group or culture to another." Relativists are typically willing to conlcude that all gouger of people are right to a certain extent if their actions are "relative to their system of standards." Williamson crticezes relativism throughout his novel by providing examples that expose the weaknesses of relativism. This discussion about relativism clearly relates to our class in the past weak as we have spoken in great detail about the concept of relativsm. What I have gathered