The book of absolutes a critique of relativism and a defence of universals /
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
c2008.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10359532 |
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.