
Politics and the Problem of Moral Relativism | Prof. Francis Beckwith
The Thomistic Institute
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The Impossibility of Moral Reformers
The key here is to rely on what you already know, rather than letting the the person who is saying that this is the truth sort of putting you in a position of being dumbfounded. Reject the principle. That's the surest way to to resist it. If relativism is true, one of the or two, of the absurd consequences includesthe impossibility of moral reformers. And we've seen throughout history people have been heroic in that regard,. standing up against things like slavery and segregation even though society was resisting them.
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