The book of absolutes : a critique of relativism and a defence of universals /
"Current dogma holds that all cultures and moral values are conditional, nothing human is innate, and Einstein proved that the whole universe is relative. Challenging this position, William Gairdner argues that relativism is not only logically and morally self-defeating but that progress in sci...
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- A brief history of relativism
- The main types of relativism
- Objections to relativism
- The universals of human life and culture
- The constants of nature
- The war over biology: setting the stage
- Hardwired: the universal of human biology, sex, and brain sex
- Universals of law: the natural law and the moral law
- The natural law and the moral law at work in the world
- How language theory changed the (post) modern world
- German philosophy and the relativist revolt against Western civilization
- The sacred text: the French Nietzsche and the French Heidegger
- Po-mo and the return to absolutes
- The universals of language
- A postscript, with a word about universals of literature, myth, and symbol
- Appendix: some universals and constants of nature and human nature.
