Unless human action takes place in a vacuum, men “suffer” the influence of the world of their own time and “act” over the world of their own time. Obviously, at least in a trivial sense, everything is relative to time and place. We have to make a conscious effort not to think that everything is relative to time and place. The “Historicism” that some 20th century philosophers, like Karl Popper, still fought against, is now embedded, to the core, in everything we say or think.
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