Two Views of Virtue : Absolute Relativism and Relative Absolutism.

Cover -- TWO VIEWS OF VIRTUE -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Absolute Relativism One: Individual-Think Is the Measure -- INTRODUCTION -- Who Is in Charge? -- Different Strokes for Different Folks -- GREEK NIHILISM -- Grandfather Parmenides -- Man Is the Measure -- AMERICAN NIHILISM -- Terminal Optimism -- Do Your Thing! -- The Father of Self-Help Psychology -- Self-Worship -- Life Without Fear -- EUROPEAN NIHILISM -- The Unbearable Heaviness of Being -- The Enemies of Progress -- Nietzsche's Virtue -- The Dark Side -- The Anti-Christ -- Moral Meltdown -- The Triumph of the Will -- The Dawning of the Age of Destruction -- Albert Camus -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- The True Heart of Sartre -- THE LAW OF SYMMETRY -- How Do You Feel About That? -- INHUMANITY RUNS AMOK -- No Slippery Slope Here -- The Poison Pill -- Anticipating Relative Absolutism -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 2 Absolute Relativism Two: Group-Think Is the Measure -- INTRODUCTION -- GODLESS DIVINE RIGHT -- The Government Can Do No Wrong -- The People Can Do No Wrong -- We, the People -- UTILITARIANISM -- Mill's Virtue -- Compulsory Education -- The Meaning of Nature -- Mill's Reversal -- Mill versus Pragmatism -- The Inhumanity of Utilitarianism -- The Ten Prisoners -- Begging the Question -- CRITICAL DUALISM -- Darwin and Dewey -- Karl Popper -- Protagoras versus Plato -- Man versus Nature -- Popper's Virtue -- Popper's Pipe Dream -- PRAGMATISM -- Rationalized Religion -- Kant and Newton -- Logical Positivism -- Skepticism and Politics -- Grasping at Straws -- Rorty's Betrayal -- Bearing Witness to One's Self -- ENLIGHTENED SELF-INTEREST -- You Scratch My Back and I'll Scratch Yours -- The Wrong Stuff -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 3 Absolute Relativism Three: The Good Goal Is the Measure -- INTRODUCTION -- ETHICS AND RELIGION -- The Most Practical Knowledge.

The Tragedy of Absolute Relativism Three -- THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE THIRD THEORY -- The Is and the Ought -- REALITY CHECK -- Maudlin Love -- A GRAND ILLUSION -- Good Intentions -- Misplaced Proportions -- FEMTHINK -- Religion and Gender -- God and Fatherhood -- It's My Body! -- DEFINITELY MAYBE -- Morality by Anticipation -- CREEPING CHAOS -- Rights and Duties -- Risky Business -- Secularist Snake Oil -- POLITICS AND ETHICS -- The Few and the Many -- There Are No Easy Answers Here -- The True Common Good -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 4 Relative Absolutism: God Is the Measure -- INTRODUCTION -- CONSERVATIVE CHIC -- Pleasure and Happiness -- The Relativity of Relative Absolutism -- The Case of the Traffic Signals Explained -- It Is Wrong to Tell a Lie -- No Comment -- NO THEOCRACIES PLEASE -- Theology and Politics -- THE THEORETICAL BASIS OF RELATIVE ABSOLUTISM -- God and Creation -- Distinctions-R-Us -- The Hierarchy of Species -- The Meaning of Good -- Russell's Dilemma -- An Attempted Compromise -- The Harmony of Natural Moral Law and Civil Law -- Morality and Human Nature -- Summary -- MORAL PROGRESS -- Change and Adaptation -- ECONOMICS AND ETHICS -- The Conditions for Rational Decisionmaking -- Long-Term Economic Planning -- Super Predators -- THE RIGHT STUFF -- The Head and the Heart -- Genuine Democracy -- Will the True Moderate Please Stand Up -- Taking Liberties with Voltaire -- Absolutism-Phobia -- Perry Mason to the Rescue -- CONCLUSION -- Universal Human Rights -- Justice for All -- Notes -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: ABSOLUTE RELATIVISM ONE -- CHAPTER 2: ABSOLUTE RELATIVISM TWO -- CHAPTER 3: ABSOLUTE RELATIVISM THREE -- CHAPTER 4: RELATIVE ABSOLUTISM -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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