Full name: A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist

Author: Peter Kreeft Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780898707311 0008987073154 0898707315

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. Similar books: The Philosophy of Jesus by Peter Kreeft On the Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer Moral Clarity by Susan Neiman Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit The View from Nowhere by Thomas Nagel The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel Beast and Man by Mary Midgley Thinking of Answers by A. C. Grayling Great Virtues by Andre Comte-Sponville The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by Bernard Williams The Reasons of Love by Harry G. Frankfurt Ethics by Michel Foucault Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein On Relationship by Jiddu Krishnamurti Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein