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A refutation of moral relativism : interviews with an absolutist / by Peter Kreeft.

Title: A refutation of moral relativism : interviews with an absolutist / by Peter Kreeft.
Author: Kreeft, Peter
Publication: San Francisco : Ignatius Press, c1999.

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177 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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 a 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Contents

The importance of moral relativism: Will it really "damn our souls and end our species"? -- What is moral relativism? -- The history of relativism -- The data -- The arguments for relativism from self-esteem and from cultural relativity -- The arguments for relativism from social conditioning, freedom, and tolerance -- The arguments for relativsm from situations, intentions, projection, and evolution -- The roots of relativism: Reductionism -- The arguments for moral absolutism -- The philosophical assumptions of absolutism -- The cause and cure of relativism.

ISBN

0898707315 (alk. paper)

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^^^98075209^

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