Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. A Brief History of Relativism 3
6. The Main Types of Relativism 22
7. Objections to Relativism 31
8. The Universals of Human Life and Culture 44
9. The Constants of Nature 69
10. The War Over Biology: Setting the Stage 105
11. Hardwired: The Universals of Human Biology, Sex, and Brain Sex 120
12. Universals of Law: The Natural Law and the Moral Law 163
13. The Natural Law and the Moral Law at Work in the World 194
14. How Language Theory Changed the (Post)Modern World 217
15. German Philosophy and the Relativist Revolt against Western Civilization 236
16. The Sacred Text: The French Nietzsche and the French Heidegger 249
17. Po-Mo and the Return to Absolutes 266
18. The Universals of Language 278
19. A Postscript, with a Word about the Universals of Literature, Myth, and Symbol 300
20. Some Universals and Constants of Nature and Human Nature 309
21. Notes 335
22. Index 381