A Refutation of Moral Relativism Quotes

“don’t confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method was to question everything. But he believed in absolute truth; he was no sceptic.”
― Peter Kreeft, A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist

“A God made in the world's image can't save the world.”
― Peter Kreeft, A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist

“As I said, relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes.”
― Peter Kreeft, A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist

“...these relativists turn out to be not relativistic at all about one thing: their relativism. That's their one nonnegotiable absolute.”
― Peter Kreeft, A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist

“And what is consensus? It means a majority of the individuals in a society coming together and agreeing to make their values into laws, or 'society's standards.' A law is enforced only by force. So your 'consensus' really means that some individuals - the lawmakers, whoever they are - the majority of democracy - impose their personal values, their will, on the other's. That's 'judgementalism,' that's imposition. The relativist is accusing the absolutist of exactly the moral fault he's guilty of. It's not just bad philosophy. It's bad morality; it's hypocrisy; it's dishonest. The very people who say, 'Don't impose your values on me because they're relative and subjective' then go on to create a society that they say is only man-mad, not based on God or natural law, and they say that all values come from man, so a society is then nothing but some men imposing their values on others.”
― Peter Kreeft, A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist