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Karl Mannheim

27 March 1893-9 January 1947

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Relativism is a problematic and contradictory principle containing within itself a belief in the absolutist claim that 'all truth is relative'.

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Relativism is a strange mixture of modern and ancient beliefs in that it implies a belief in an absolute truth which was true for all times and places and condemned other truth claims because they could not achieve this level of objectivity.

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Thought style is a socially constructed ordering of argument. Thought styles organize perceptions of reality in different ways. They are traceable back to a specific social group and its quest to influence the public interpretation of reality.

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Utopia is quite different from different groups. For orgiastic chiliasm (lower strata), liberal-humanitarian (intellectuals), conservative (status quo), and socialist-communist (proletarian).