Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
9-1993
Publication Information
60 New Oxford Rev., no. 7, Sept. 1993, at 30 (book review).
Abstract
Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth. By John Finnis.
Catholic University of America Press. 113 pages. $9.95.
Receipts for what the producers had the decency to call Indecent Proposal approach $100 million. The couple's earnest deliberations evidently engage. The moviegoer, I suppose, wonders with Demi and Woody: Are there some things that, no matter what, it is never right to do? Are there, in other words, absolute moral prohibitions? Is adultery one of them?
In this formidable volume, Oxford philosopher John Finnis cogently defends the common answer (for millennia, until just a few decades ago) of Jews and Christians: There are moral absolutes. Adultery is among them. It may never be rightly chosen.
Recommended Citation
Gerard V. Bradley,
Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth,
60 New Oxford Rev., no. 7, Sept. 1993, at 30 (book review)..
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