College professor Stephen Satris maintains that the cognitive developmental stage known as "relativism"-viz. when students stop thinking in "black and white" ways and swing to the other extreme of thinking there are no right and wrong answers at all-is not a means of avoiding having one's ideas challenged but a genuine philosophical position.
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College professor Stephen Satris maintains that the relativism of the second stage of development is not a genuine philosophical position but a means of avoiding having one's ideas challenged. Student relativism, he writes, "is primarily a method of protection, a suit of armor, which can be applied to one's own opinions, whatever they may be-but not necessarily to the opinion of others. . . . It is an expression of the idea that no one step forward and judge (and possibly criticize) one's own opinion."
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