The sparks start flying in this involving fictional debate when a professor characterizes Auschwitz as "the fruit of moral relativism" and quotes Mussolini's explanation of fascism as quintessentially relativistic. The succeeding discussion treats the definition and the history of moral relativism, whether data support relativism or absolutism, the arguments for relativism, the roots of relativism in reductionism, arguments for moral absolutism, and absolutism's philosophical assumptions. As the title suggests, relativism is found to be lacking. Kreeft deftly creates recognizable characters as he advances the debate.