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This study revolves around two interrelated topics, either of which would actually merit its own book. The first deals with the discourse of anti-relativism as it is present in official statements of the Catholic Church. It is often said that political philosophy, which Ian Shapiro called “narcissistic”, has nowadays become encapsulated in its own canon and self-commentaries [Shapiro, Ian. Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics, Or What Is Wrong with Political Science and What to Do about It. In Political Theory 30:4 (August 2002), 596-619; 596]. The project that brings our attention to the body of texts criticizing liberal democracy from an intellectually elaborate point of view opens up our political philosophical discussion to the voices which are labeled “traditionalist” and thus are left unheeded. Historical analysis of how the concept of relativism has become so prominent in Catholic political theory is, however, only a foundation for the second part of the book, which is an analytical study of “the challenge represented for democratic theory by the idea that democratic regimes need to be complemented by the reference to a set of absolute moral or political truths in order to avoid degenerating into a form of tyranny or totalitarianism” (p. 6). The focus on the Catholic doctrine is explained by the facts that, on the one hand, it is in Catholic teaching that we find the most sophisticated formulations of anti-relativism

Relativism and Religion: Why Democratic Societies Do Not Need Moral Absolutes. By Carlo Invernizzi Accetti. Columbia University Press: 2015