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"Peter Kreeft lets an attractive, honest, and funny relativist interview a 'Muslim fundamentalist' absolutist so as not to stack the dice personally for absolutism. In a series of personal interviews, every conceivable argument the 'sassy Black feminist' reporter Libby gives against absolutism is simply and clearly refuted, and none of the many arguments for moral absolutism is refuted."--Jacket.
2) Moral combat
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This book explores the thesis that legal roles force people to engage in moral combat, an idea that is implicit in the assumption that citizens may be morally required to disobey unjust laws while judges may be morally required to punish citizens for civil disobedience, Heidi Hurd advances the surprising argument that the law cannot require us to do what morality forbids. In the end, Hurd shows that our best moral theory is one that never makes one...
6) The many and the one: religious and secular perspectives on ethical pluralism in the modern world
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The war on terrorism, say America's leaders, is a war of Good versus Evil. But in the minds of the perpetrators, the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington were presumably justified as ethically good acts against American evil. Is such polarization leading to a violent "clash of civilizations" or can differences between ethical systems be reconciled through rational dialogue? This book provides an extraordinary resource for thinking clearly...
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"In this work of intellectual history, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism had overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially those pertaining to the sacredness of human life. Many of these thinkers, like Ernst Haeckel and Ludwig Buchner, supported a moral relativism,...
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This is Ratzinger's first book as Pope. Written in conjunction with President of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera--a partnering of the statesman and the holy man--the book is a reassessment of the European "West" and its struggle to define itself in the wake of war, terrorism, diplomatic and spiritual crisis. Pope Benedict reveals a thorough grasp of the contemporary global climate and the tentative and fractious bonds that tie Europe to the rest...
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