“Morality means choice. Choice means priorities. Priorities mean a hierarchy. A hierarchy means something at the top, a standard. That is the greatest good. If you have no greatest good, you have no hierarchy, you have no priorities. If you have no priorities, you cannot make intelligent choices. If you cannot make intelligent moral choices, you have no morality. You can still guide your life by your feelings or by social fashions, but that is not choice – not free, responsible, moral choice. Both feelings and fashions push you; you are passive. But moral choice is your own doing; you are active. You are responsible for your choices but not for your feelings or for your environment’s fashions.”

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About Peter Kreeft

American philosopher and professor, Catholic convert

Peter John Kreeft is an American philosopher and professor, associated with Boston College and The King’s College. A Catholic convert, he has built a long career writing on Christian philosophy, theology, and apologetics. He has written more than eighty books in those fields, and his work often focuses on defending and explaining the Christian faith. He is also known for co-formulating Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God with Ronald K. Tacelli in their Handbook of Christian Apologetics.

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