Peter Kreeft Quotes About Relativism

Quotes about: Relativism

• Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

  Peter Kreeft

  Philosophy, Caring, Moral Absolutism

• In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

  Peter Kreeft

  Age, Orthodoxy, Rebellion

  Peter Kreeft (1992). “Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion”, p.189, Ignatius Press

• Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

  Peter Kreeft

  Two, People, Stupidity

• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

  Peter Kreeft

  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

• No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

  Peter Kreeft

  Culture, Lessons, Firsts

• No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, Compassion, Age

  "The Pillars of Unbelief - Machiavelli" by Peter Kreeft, www.peterkreeft.com. January/February 1988.

• Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

  Peter Kreeft

  Absolutism, Want, Morality

• I want to give moral relativism the good spanking it deserves.

  Peter Kreeft

  Giving, Catholic, Absolutism

• Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.

  Peter Kreeft

  Clever, Believe, Light

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