This is Part 4 of a series. See also Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. There could be no greater argument against moral relativism than the moral relativist himself. Ayn Rand insisted that she was justified ...

Most people who oppose moral relativism believe that they know the moral absolutes. Rarely does someone say, "I believe there are moral absolutes, but I don't know what they are." Generally, ...

There’s a great riff in John McWhorter’s book, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language that describes how expressive force in language diminishes over time. His poster child is the word ...

The moral relativist contradicts himself when he insists that relativism creates freedom. This is impossible, as freedom cannot create values―rather, freedom presupposes values. As Pope St. John Paul ...

In certain political and religious circles, the notion of moral relativism — that there is no objective “right” or wrong, only individual opinions — is not just anathema, not merely abhorrent. It is ...

Liberalism permits different ways of living, but such permissiveness is still predicated on universal moral truths. By Thomas Hurka In a 2019 speech defending a traditional, religiously based morality ...

An announcement from president Jacques Chirac, an attack in the New York Times, a series of puzzled obituaries and a torrent of jokes about deconstructing mortality. "Naturally the coverage of Derrida ...

Most people who oppose moral relativism believe that they know the moral absolutes. Rarely does someone say, "I believe there are moral absolutes, but I don't know what they are." Generally, ...