Both were out on a limb, ferociously challenging the slovenly relativism of everyone else.
It is a fight between right and wrong, in which relativism should have no place.
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The idea that morality is a culturally-conditioned response straightforwardly implies moral relativism, and Prinz embraces it.
And he campaigned against what he strikingly called the "dictatorship of relativism" in post-Christian western societies.
You might well say that is evidence of a cancerous moral relativism at the heart of the City.
Cultural relativism makes it difficult to fight, because cultural relativism says that Islam is the same as Christianity.
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One of the things I found most noteworthy about the book is its relentless, unashamed, and naked moral relativism.
Moral relativism, cloaked in jargon, was on the march, promoted by the tedious, despicable know-alls of the supposedly educated classes.
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The discovery that relativism is true can help each of us individually by revealing that our values are mutable and parochial.
Relativism does tell us, however, that we are mistaken when we think we are in possession of the one true morality.
At times he calls for a thoroughgoing scepticism, even relativism, attacking the Christianity of Pascal (unconvincingly) and Francis of Assisi (amusingly).
Allegation: Relativism entails that moral debates are senseless, since everyone is right.
Obama, like his fellow modern liberals, has been schooled in moral relativism.
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His famous denunciation of the "dictatorship of relativism" recognised the spiritual and philosophical oppression under which Western people, in this postmodern era, live.
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But, we must be careful when using the slippery slope argument that it doesn't become a disguised form of "moral relativism" or irrationalism.
Moral relativism is based on a refusal to call evil evil and a concomitant willingness to denigrate truth if truth requires you to notice evil.
Allegation: Relativism entails that we have no way to criticize Hitler.
People often resist relativism because they think it has unacceptable implications.
She holds a mirror up to the Free World and demands that we defend our freedom against the onslaught of moral relativism and cultural decline.
Multiculturalism is a quasi-religion predicated on both moral relativism and a basic belief in the inherent avarice of the West - particularly of the US and Israel.
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We do this in return for measures to restrict immigration, roll back crime, counter cultural relativism, and restore our traditional Western freedoms, such as freedom of speech.
The multicultural mindset comes with crippling relativism and misplaced humility.
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Relativism does not entail that we should tolerate murderous tyranny.
The entire leftist elite is guilty of practicing cultural relativism.
It is the dominance of moral relativism in liberal institutions like the New York Times that make even the most apologetic expose of the Muslim Brotherhood a major event.
He was wary of a creeping relativism - the idea that all was a matter of opinion and preference and that Truth, with a capital "T" did not exist.
In a world where freedom of choice, and therefore moral relativism, are very much in fashion, the Vatican's efforts to impose unity in its own ranks have seemed heavy-handed.
Rather ingeniously, the report's authors have chosen to begin their assessment of women's inequality with the issue of health an area where it is particularly difficult to argue for cultural relativism.
But Europeans should resist a surrender to moral relativism.
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