Nnadiebube Journal of Philosophy

This article makes a link between these three concepts namely; Einstein’s Relativistic Cosmology, Ethical Relativism, and Tolerance. This work also establishes the contrasts between them. This material is a thoroughly review of arguments concerning the relationship between Einstein’s Relativistic Cosmology, Ethical Relativism, and Tolerance. The research employs analytic method. In the course of the research the findings include; ethical relativists argue that there are no moral principles that are universally valid i.e. all moral codes are relative; in contrast, moral objectivists insist that there are moral principles that can be applied to all peoples, societies and cultures; paradoxes and dilemmas of tolerance for instance, tolerance can function as a virtue as well as a vice, in the sense that excessive tolerance is a perversion of tolerance and therefore not tolerance at all, also intolerance can be a virtue and a vice, as a virtue in the case of condemning evils, as a vice in the case of rejecting toleration etc. This paper argues that Einstein’s Relativity and Ethical Relativism cannot entail Tolerance. Ethical relativism cannot provide a basis for either tolerance or mutual respect. Tolerance sometimes can be a virtue and sometimes it can function as a vice in the face of tolerating evil like imm

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