A Refutation Of Moral Relativism by Kreeft Peter

Author:Kreeft, Peter [Kreeft, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spiritual & Religion
ISBN: 9780898707311
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2009-12-07T05:00:00+00:00

Interview 7

The Arguments from Situations, Intentions, Projection, and Evolution

Libby: Well, here I am back on your rack, your torture chamber. You know, if it wasn’t for the great fishing, I think I’d be outta here. The surf hasn’t been rideable all week, even at that great secret beach of yours.

Kreeft: It’s August. We get rideable surf an average of eight days this month in Lake Atlantic. You should really come back in September: twice as much surf and half as many people.

Libby: Well, the beach was heavenly anyway.

‘Isa: And those blues we caught yesterday in the Sound were heavenly blues.

Libby: Are there fish in heaven?

‘Isa: Professor Kreeft wrote a book that might answer that question. I think the title was Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Heaven but Never Dreamed of Asking. Right? I don’t know whether the fish question comes up, though.

Libby: We really should bring him into this format some time.

Kreeft: Not today, please. You know our agreement. Ten interviews with just the two of you.

Libby: OK, back to work. Where were we?

‘Isa: You’ve got four of your eight arguments left.

Kreeft: Let’s see if we can fit them all on one tape this morning. We all ate too much to think last night.

Libby: OK, here we go. I guess I’ve got to do my job—which is to stick my head in his cannon four more times, and his job is to fire it.

“Cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them. . . . into the valley of death rode the six hundred.” “The Charge of the Light Brigade”—that’s me.

So—here’s my fifth argument. (I thought it was the sixth. Never mind.) Morality is relative, because even if it isn’t relative to the individual who makes it up, or to the society that makes the laws—and I still say it is—it’s still relative, because it’s relative to two other things: changing situations and personal intentions. Even a traditional moralist like you has to admit that. So it’s still relative.

‘Isa: This is really two arguments, so we should take them one by one, OK?

Libby: OK. But I’m not finished. I didn’t give you the arguments yet,

‘Isa: If I have to wait as long for the arguments as I had to wait for the bluefish, I’ll be starving.

Kreeft: My apologies again for the uncooperative stove.

‘Isa: I’m only kidding, Professor. But I still don’t understand why we couldn’t just barbecue them outdoors.

Kreeft: There’s no room. The yard’s too tiny. The law says you can’t barbecue within ten feet of a house. Look, the tape’s running. If you don’t get to the arguments, you won’t get them all in today. Forget the fish.

‘Isa: Those fish? Impossible! Even my Papa never caught such fish.

Libby: Come on, let’s get down to business. Here’s my argument. Morality is relative to situations. And situations are so diverse, and so complex, and so changeable, that—well, it’s just unreasonable and unrealistic to say there are rules with no exceptions, ever. That’s just not common sense.

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