Postmodernism - Philosophize This!

• Modern is in reference to enlightenment period
• • Reason, Induction, Scientific Truth
  • There is an objective reality
  • • Science, when carefully utilized can tell us about this objective reality

• Postmodernism asserts the knowledge is not from a non-subjective lens.

• • That in fact we cannot escape our bubble of perception and experience and all knowledge is from it
  • Come with cultural, experience baggage/bias
  • Always from a certain viewpoint

• The postmodernists look down upon the modernists for looking at truth with a capital T. Absolute Truth.

• They want to get rid of grand narratives of absolute truth

• These grand narratives cause tribalism, insofar as they are the substance that coalitions will use to stick together

• • e.g Nationalism

• Society doesn’t need to be as unified as it has been in the past

• • We don’t all need to do the same thing, believe the same thing, subscribe to the same truth

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