William F. Buckley Jr. dedicated an episode of Firing Line to the question of “moral absolutes,” and denunciations of “moral relativism” came fast and thick. And they did not stop.

It’s moral absolutism that led to Sept. 11, Mr. Ramirez, not an appreciation of human and cultural diversity. Get over yourself! Ric Weiss Los Angeles ...

In a conflict marked by moral absolutism, today’s hostage deal is a triumph of difficult compromise. As the possibility of an agreement emerged, Israel’s leaders faced a dilemma: Israel could ...

Moral absolutism is the idea that there are moral values that exist in the universe at large that transcend any (human) locality and could in theory be discovered (or have been discovered).

The rise of this moral absolutism — wherein debate is violence and disagreement is erasure — combined with unprecedented economic stratification, ...