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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: Because Lewis was a Christian, so he could not disagree with the teaching of Jesus and of all the prophets in Jesus’ Jewish tradition—and, later, Islamic tradition too.… Libby: What teaching? ‘Isa: The teaching that in order to be saved, to go to heaven, you need to repent. But you can’t repent if you don’t believe in sin to repent of, and you can’t believe in sin if you don’t believe in a real moral law, because sin means disobeying that. Moral relativism eliminates that law, thus sin, thus
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