Word: relativistic
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...strong internationalist. But Mussolini could believe almost anything passionately, and not long after a dispute led him to split with the Socialists, he established a new party, the Fascists, molding it along the lines of his own erratic and opportunistic temperament. As he described it, the party was "super-relativist," with only one guiding light: Italy. "Our myth is the greatness of the nation," he said, adding that it was the historical mission of an antiliberal elite to build and maintain that greatness. When he became Prime Minister in 1922, after the famous March on Rome, he made it clear...
...personal morality. It also testifies to his pragmatism; he had learned the lessons of 1969 well. To Bok, the university's virtue is inevitably bound up with Machiavelli's concept of virtu: the employment of prudence in the service of all specific ends. His ethics and ethos are relativist...