Multiculturalism, Part I (The Great Ideas Online no. 53)

Mortimer Adler · c. 1990–1999

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The world is multicultural and people should be taught about its cultural diversity

Their wordsThe world, certainly, is multicultural, and so we should be taught about its cultural diversity.

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The world is multicultural and people should be taught about its cultural diversity

Their wordsThe world, certainly, is multicultural, and so we should be taught about its cultural diversity.
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Matters of taste can differ between cultures, but matters of truth are transcultural

Their wordsThe line that divides the multicultural from the transcultural is the line that separates all matters of taste or preference from all matters concerned with the truth and falsity of the propositions being entertained or judged.
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Extreme skepticism about truth refutes itself

Their wordsIn the first place, the extreme skeptic refutes himself.

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