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A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Peter Kreeft argues that no idea is more fateful for civilization than moral relativism, and that history knows not one example of a successful society which repudiated moral absolutes. Kreeft claims 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...

‘Isa: No, that was the hard version of relativism. Here, it’s leading to Brave New World—the soft version of relativism. Libby: I’m sorry, Professor, but I’ve got to say I’m deeply disappointed so far. I thought this interview was going to be something like a debate, or at least like a university lecture, where you’d have to prove things and explain things. It sounds more like demagoguery to me so far—name calling instead of logical arguments and demonstrations and data. I thought you were going
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