1.
Rationalization is the justification of an
unacceptable action by a more acceptable, but false, excuse.
Sumber: Buskist, Wiliam.et.al. Psychology Boundaries And Frontiers.
USA: Harper Collins Publishers.
2.
Rationalization, another defense mechanism,
occurs when we distort reality by justifying what happens to us: we develop
explanations that allow us to protect our self-esteem.
Sumber S. Feldman, Robert. Psychology Second Edition.
3.
Rationalism are “logical”, they are generally
based on false premises. Most every day rationalism are inconsequentional, but
of an individual relies too much on this defense mechanism.
Sumber: Ruch, F.L.1975. Psychology and Life 7th ed. Scott: Foresmand and Co.
4.
Rationalism is an unconscious process of
devising seemingly logical explanations for a situations that would other wise
result in loss of social approval or self esteem.
Sumber: Ruch, F.L.1975. Psychology and Life 7th ed. Scott: Foresmand and Co.
1.
The problem of moral relativism arises from the
beliefs that certain actions are objectively right or wrong and that all moral
judgements are relative. If all moral judgements are relative (to individuals,
societies, religions, etc), then no actions are objectively right or wrong.
Sumber: Jr Theodore, Schick,et al. Doing Philosophy. New York: Mc. Graw
Hill co.
2.
The relativistic implications of his claim that
the only standards of scientific truth are those criteria generated by the
scientific community were sized upon by those who wished to sound the death
knell for scientific realism.
Sumber: Kurtines, William M. The Role Of Values in Psychology and Human
development.
3.
Relativist view of knowledge, that is
sociologist studying the processes of doing natural science.
Sumber: Research
Methods and Statistics in Psychology. Hugh Coolican.
4.
Relativity of Albert Einstein: events which are
simoultaneous with reference to the embankment are simoultaneous with respect
to the train and vice versa.
Sumber: White, T.I. 1991. Discovering
Phylosophy. USA: Schwister Englewood Cliffs.