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Title: A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews With an Absolutist by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0-89870-731-5 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Kreeft does it once again!
Comment: One of the best modern Catholic authors writes another great book. Kreeft's style is unique to most reader's not introduced to the Socratic method of dialogue. In easier to understand language, it means that the book is written more like a play than prose. Kreeft has two main characters, a Muslim absolutist and a liberal African American woman. The two debate, discuss and dialogue about all aspects of morality. Kreeft, as usual, is easy to read and yet remains challenging in his intellectual mastery of the subject. Kreeft makes difficult ideas seem easy and absolutely destroys every single argument in support of relativism used today.
If you want to understand how modern man thinks and why he is so wrong in his thought-process, then this book is perfect.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Solid Refutation
Comment: Peter Kreeft manages a very solid refutation of moral relativism, covering virtually all possible angles. The diologue format is very easy to read (and re-read) and the arguments are not so complicated as to confuse the reader. If you are a believer in objective morality, and you desire logical arguments to back up your beliefs, this is the book for you.
Rating: 1
Summary: Nothing new here.
Comment: Prof. Kreeft has 'demolished' moral relativism by showing it leads to contradictions. What's new here? It is easy to show that moral relativism is contradictory. No philosopher has argued that naive moral relativism does not lead to such contradictions. Whereas this might come as a shock to trendy liberals unfamiliar with the law of non-contradiction, it is hardly interesting news. This book's only purpose could be to illustrate to these individuals the incoherence of their views (provided that they accept the law of non-contradiction, and not all relativists do, e.g. Richard Rorty). On this level it might be successful; it is accessible. This book, however, makes the astonishing assumption that a case against moral relativism amounts to a case for moral realism (or 'absolutism'). Relativism or realism--take your pick--there are still serious philosophical problems in the foundations of ethics that are not addressed in this book. Accordingly, this book projects to the lay-reader it is written for a very misleading and flatly dishonest 'justification' for the realist moral intuitions that they are likely to have acquired by pure socialization. Indeed, if a moral realist wants a justification of right and wrong they must have an account that extends beyond our normal way of thinking about right and wrong, since such a justification must react outside of our practices for its authority. On this level I think the book fails miserably as a popular book on 'the central problem in ethics'. In a nutshell, a great source for an overly drawn out argument for the obvious, but a totally inconsequential piece of pop-philosophy when viewed in light of the problems that persist in contemporary metaethics and normative ethics.
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Title: How to Win the Culture War: A Christian Battle Plan for a Society in Crisis by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0830823166 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0830823387 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Making Sense Out of Suffering by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0892832193 Publisher: Servant Ministries Pub. Date: 01 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions by Peter Kreeft, Ronald K. Tacelli ISBN: 0830817743 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Philosophy 101 by Socrates: An Introduction to Philosophy Via Plato's Apology by Peter Kreeft ISBN: 0898709253 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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