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9780898707311

A Refutation of Moral Relativism Interviews With an Absolutist

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    9780898707311

  • ISBN10:

    0898707315

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-10-01
  • Publisher: Ignatius Press

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Summary

No issue is more fateful for civilization than moral relativism. History knows not one example of a successful society which repudiated moral absolutes. Yet most attacks on relativism have been either pragmatic (looking at its social consequences) or exhorting (preaching rather than proving), and philosophers' arguments against it have been specialized, technical, and scholarly.

In his typical unique writing style, Peter Kreeft lets an attractive, honest, and funny relativist interview a "Muslim fundamentalist" absolutist so as not to stack the dice personally for absolutism. In an engaging series of personal interviews, every conceivable argument the "sassy Black feminist" reporter Libby gives against absolutism is simply and clearly refuted, and none of the many arguments for moral absolutism is refuted.

Author Biography

Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College.

Table of Contents

Technical Note 9(2)
Introduction 11(4)
The Importance of Moral Relativism: Will It Really ``Damn Our Souls and End Our Species''?
15(12)
What Is Moral Relativism?
27(8)
The History of Relativism
35(18)
The Data
53(11)
The Arguments for Relativism from Self-Esteem and from Cultural Relativity
64(23)
The Arguments for Relativism from Social Conditioning, Freedom, and Tolerance
87(14)
The Arguments for Relativism from Situations, Intentions, Projection, and Evolution
101(22)
The Roots of Relativism: Reductionism
123(12)
The Arguments for Moral Absolutism
135(15)
The Philosophical Assumptions of Absolutism
150(14)
The Cause and Cure of Relativism
164(13)
Afterword 177

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