The Book of Absolutes

A Critique of Relativism and a Defence of Universals

• Author(s): William D. Gairdner,
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
• Pages: 416
• ISBN_10: 0773574697
  ISBN_13: 9780773574694
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / General , Philosophy / Epistemology , Philosophy / History & Surveys / General , Philosophy / Metaphysics , Philosophy / Movements / General , Philosophy / Social , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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 scientific and intellectual disciplines has actually strengthened the case for absolutes, universals, and constants of nature and human nature.