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Originally Posted by MSD
I reject postmodern philosophy on the same basis that I reject philosophical skepticism, pyrrhonism, and cultural relativism. There are absolutes, there are right and wrong answers, and truth is attainable.
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But this is not so. The Postmodernists reject that there are any right or wrong answers (ref: the rejection of grand narratives), and to them only truth is that there is no "Truth." This is why I ask. They seem to have a kind of skepticism. But many have problems with postmodernists in that their answer is that there is no answer, at least not one that we can all agree upon...nor even most groups for that matter. That drives people mad.
Anyway, postmodernism isn't about absolutes; it's about grey areas.
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Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 09-08-2009 at 05:21 PM..
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