I think I agree with dubdobdee above if he is saying Jazz is the ultimate in relativism.
However, if he isn't saying that then I'm just putting that out there anyway.
I don't like jazz or relativism, I believe they're both totally contrary to any sort of value system and we'd generally say we need a value system. However, since semantically relativism would seem to suggest a belief in the relationships between things, ie: things are value positive or value negative comparatively to each other in their scale of thing-ness (a lion is more a cat than an ocean etc.) then we are all relativists because that's the very basis for a functional value system. And maybe in this sense jazz is listenable.
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However, if he isn't saying that then I'm just putting that out there anyway.
I don't like jazz or relativism, I believe they're both totally contrary to any sort of value system and we'd generally say we need a value system. However, since semantically relativism would seem to suggest a belief in the relationships between things, ie: things are value positive or value negative comparatively to each other in their scale of thing-ness (a lion is more a cat than an ocean etc.) then we are all relativists because that's the very basis for a functional value system. And maybe in this sense jazz is listenable.
So swings and roundabouts, really.