...Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger Duke University Press 2007 Translation courtesy of the Holy See Press Office A P P E N D I X HOMILY PRO ELIGENDO ROMANO PONTIFICE Addressed to the College of Cardinals, April 18...

...Yaakov Mascetti In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took the occasion of his last homily before election as Pope Benedict XVI to assault what he termed the “dictatorship of relativism,” and Common Knowledge responded in 2007 with a double issue (vol. 13, nos. 2–3) in defense of relativism. Yaakov...

...Julia Kristeva; Jeffrey M. Perl Written originally as part of a Common Knowledge symposium (2007) responding to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s homily against relativism, which was delivered immediately before his election as pope, this essay describes a reactionary German intellectual current...

...Gianni Vattimo Duke University Press 2007 Translated by Robert Valgenti A “DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM”? Symposium in Response to Cardinal Ratzinger’s Last Homily In memory of Clifford Geertz Gianni Vattimo, Julia...

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... they appear, and the speaker’s role at the time, one need not see anything intellectually signifi- cant — informative, weighty, or unusual — in Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s state- ments regarding relativism in his homily to the conclave meeting to elect the new pope.1 Embedded in a homily — which...

... with a high faith in the reality of knowledge, and an intense desire to find things out, all my philosophy has always seemed to me to grow.  — Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vol. 1 Cardinal Ratzinger’s homily at the votive mass for the election of the new pope in April 2005...

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... morally dangerous. The closest he comes, in his preelection homily, to discussing nal Ratzinger todismiss relativism summarily as intellectually contemptible and power and pleasure). own adept’s the of service in (and truth for regard without debate, in victory who awarewas...

... about by these waves — flung from one extreme to another.” So Cardinal Ratzinger told his colleagues aboard their truly awesome ship of thought. He definedrelativism , for their reflection, as letting go at sea (“letting oneself be ‘tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine...

... Ratzinger was right, in his homily, that modern society and too many individual lives are enslaved to “a dictatorship of relativism” is a ques- tion we may best leave to sociologists, moralists, and pundits to determine. It is likely that Gianni Vattimo is right to say, in introducing this symposium...

... Cardinal Ratzinger issued a stern warning to his colleagues: “Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be ‘tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine,’ seems the only attitude...

... COMMON In this context, I would mention the article published on the front page of L’osservatore Romano on December 29, 2000, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, enti- tled “Abraham’s Heritage—A Christmas Gift.” The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...

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