My question is: Must relativism be universal, or can a person's views be relativistic in only some aspects?
I think that relativism can absolutely be incomplete. A person could have a relativistic view of beauty, and thus believe that no one person's opinion on what is beautiful is more or less valid than anybody else's, and yet hold a strictly black-and-white view of morality, or possibly even vice-versa, although I imagine instances of the latter are rare. My own views on beauty are somewhat relativistic, but in a number of other ways I do not think that I view things relativistically at all. Thus, as relativism in regards to beauty need not imply relativism in regards to anything else, aesthetic relativism is not at all a hypocritical viewpoint.
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