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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: But we won’t prove anything yet tonight. Tonight we merely define our terms. Libby: Then tonight I guess I’m not supposed to do much—just be a good little student and ask a few obvious questions and not make any trouble. And you’re going to act more like a professor. ‘Isa: I hope I can give a fair imitation. Libby: So can you define relativism for us, Professor? ‘Isa: Yes. Relativism is the philosophy that denies absolutes. Any absolutes. Everyone believes there are many relativities, that
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