THE PANDEMIC OF RELATIVISM: AN OBSTACLE FOR MORAL AND SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION

Abstract

The present age is characterized, as Bauman has opined, by the «liquidity» of human life. The structures that were previously solid are today changing, be it the identity of the subject, their sexuality, their relationships. Everything is liquid, moldable, adaptable. If something is feared at this time, it is the stable or permanent.

Consequently, values have also been affected because they depend on each person’s point of view, preferences, and tastes, that is, they are totally relative.

This liquidity in all aspects generates uncertainty, because given the excessive information to which we are exposed, the human being ultimately does not have objective references to define what is good, valuable, preferable, since it seems that everything depends on the circumstance and the subject preferences. Ethics becomes obsolete because if everyone has an equally valid point of view, it is impossible to speak of a hierarchy of values. The search for the truth is also impossible because any possibility of reaching it is denied. It seems that education is impossible in a relativistic society. So how is it possible to teach in an age where
truth and morality are questioned and even denied?