Absolutism Quote by Peter Kreeft Download Open image “I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.” — Peter Kreeft ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absolutism Catholic Character Deserve Giving Moral Moral relativism Relativism Spanking Want
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Bitter experience has taught me that you don't engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism.” — Alexis Hall Copy Share Image
“There can be no accountability in relativism. Those who answer to themselves ultimately answer to no one of consequence. And this makes it impossible… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
“This is the first law of relativism: When right or wrong are a matter of personal choice, we surrender the privilege of making moral… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism. — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“Relativists can't accuse others of wrongdoing. I Say Relativism makes it impossible to criticize the behavior of others, because relativism ultimately denies such a… — Gregory Koukl Copy Share Image
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Relativism is one of the many crimes committed by intellectuals. It is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.” — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers to God make, and all the people those… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The self is like a baseball. Throw it back to the divine pitcher who pitched it to you in the first place, and the… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“Socrates says we must be either fools because we think we are wise, or wise because we know we are fools. Christ says we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Science only answers the question, How does it work? Or at most, What's there? Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The most compelling evidence for God's existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation. — Peter Wilson Copy Share Image
In the light of absolute values (religious or ethical) man himself is judged to be limited or imperfect, while he can occasionally accomplish acts… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought. — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The absolutist trumpets his plain vision; the relativist sees only someone who is unaware of his own spectacles. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
