|
|
|
|
| LEADER |
01593nam a2200217 a 4500 |
| 001 |
1863787 |
| 005 |
20171111234646.0 |
| 008 |
090513s2008 quc sb 001 0deng |
| 020 |
|
|
|z 9780773534131
|
| 040 |
|
|
|a CaPaEBR
|z 077353413X
|
| 050 |
1 |
4 |
|a BJ1500.R37
|b G35 2008eb
|
| 100 |
1 |
|
|a Gairdner, William D.
|d 1940-
|q (William Douglas),
|
| 245 |
1 |
4 |
|a The book of absolutes
|b a critique of relativism and a defence of universals /
|c William D. Gairdner.
|
| 260 |
|
|
|a Montreal :
|b McGill-Queen's University Press,
|c c2008.
|
| 300 |
|
|
|a xvi, 398 p.
|
| 504 |
|
|
|a Includes bibliographical references and index.
|
| 505 |
0 |
|
|a 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.
|
| 650 |
|
0 |
|a Cultural relativism.
|
| 710 |
2 |
|
|a ebrary, Inc.
|
| 856 |
4 |
0 |
|u http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10359532
|
| 952 |
|
|
|a CY-NiOUC
|b 5a0460eb6c5ad14ac1ee387b
|c 998a
|d 945l
|e -
|t 1
|x m
|z Books
|
