Moral Absolutism Quotes

• El relativismo moral tiene fama de compasivo, solidario y humano, pero es una filosofía extremadamente útil para los tiranos.

  Peter Kreeft

  Philosophy, Caring, Tyrants

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• According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

  Jon Krakauer

  Success, Challenges, Outcomes

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jun 21, 2012

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• It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Practice, Political, Ruthlessness

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.16, Vintage

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• George Bush cometió un error al referirse al régimen de Sadam Husein como "malvado". Todo liberal e izquierdista sabe reírse a carcajadas ante semejante absolutismo moral en blanco y negro.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mistake, Black And White, Evil

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). "Christopher Hitchens y sus críticos: Terror, Iraq, and the Left", p.5104, NYU Press

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• Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

  Thomas Cochrane

  Spheres, Physics, Biology

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• There is nothing quite like the moral absolutism of the young." -Hodge

  Cassandra Clare

  Absolutism, Moral, Young

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• Su premisa errónea habitual es que afirman cierto consenso entre la gente, al menos entre los pueblos domesticados, en relación con ciertos principios morales, y luego concluyen que estos principios deben ser incondicionalmente vinculantes también para ti y para mí; o a la inversa, ven que entre los diferentes pueblos las valoraciones morales son necesariamente diferentes y deducen de ello que ninguna moral es vinculante; ambas cosas son igualmente infantiles.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Usual, Principles

  Friedrich Nietzsche Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). "Nietzsche: La Ciencia Gay: Con un preludio en rimas alemanas y un apéndice de canciones", p.203, Cambridge University Press

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• Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and the many; unity and variety; determinism and freedom; mechanism and vitalism; good and evil; time and eternity; the plenum and the void; moral absolutism and relativism... These are the basic problems of human existence, and as far as we possibly can we arrange things to forget them.

  Frank Barron

  Art, Philosophy, Evil

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