subjectivism
/səbˈdʒɛktɪvɪz(ə)m
/noun [mass noun] Philosophy
The doctrine that knowledge is merely subjective and that there is no external or objective truth.This New Age subjectivism and relativism encourage people to believe that reality is whatever you want it to be....
- For example, moral subjectivism is that species of moral relativism that relativizes moral value to the individual subject.
- It seems that this absolutization leads to subjectivism.
Derivatives
subjectivist
- Nietzsche made a virtue out of the subjectivist isolation in which he found himself.
- Suprisingly, Heidegger argues that there is little trace here of a subjectivist metaphysics in which being as such has to be orientated by the self-posited ego as subject.
- By contrast, post-Cartesian epistemology is individualist because it is subjectivist.