The Book of Absolutes

Acknowledgments; Introduction 1 A Brief History of Relativism; 2 The Main Types of Relativism; 3 Objections to Relativism; 4 The Universals of Human Life and Culture; 5 The Constants of Nature; 6 The War over Biology: Setting the Stage; 7 Hardwired: The Universals of Human Biology, Sex, and Brain Sex; 8 Universals of Law: The Natural Law and the Moral Law; 9 The Natural Law and the Moral Law at Work in the World; 10 How Language Theory Changed the (Post) Modern World; 11 German Philosophy and the Relativist Revolt against Western Civilization; 12 The Sacred Text: The French Nietzsche and the French Heidegger; 13 Po-Mo and the Return to Absolutes; 14 The Universals of Language; 15 A Postscript, with a Word about the Universals of Literature, Myth, and Symbol Appendix: Some Universals and Constants of Nature and Human Nature; Notes; Index