Coming full circle I wrote this essay nearly 40 years ago and now, though I might change some wordings, the essential message I sought to convey then is the same I am advocating now with Critical Hydra Theory. I have indeed come full circle.   Humanism, Feminism, and Cultural Relativity: Contradictions and Ambiguities By Thomas E. Arcaro The Columbus College of Art and Design1 [Note: First published in The Humanist Sociologist, newsletter for the Association of Humanist Sociology, fall 1980] This essay is an open question to my humanist colleagues. I will outline below what I feel are basic theoretical contradictions in the acceptance of humanistic, feminist, and culturally relativistic ideologies and the application of these ideas to my everyday life and my teaching of undergraduates. I am not certain that I want my colleagues to respond with answers, and thus somehow reconcile the contradictions that are outlined. For, like … Continue reading Humanism, Feminism, and Cultural Relativity: Contradictions and Ambiguities