“Objective truth is oppressive.” “It’s true for me” encapsulates the postmodernist ethos: http://bit.ly/2tsWSnf . I despise postmodernism.
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Replying to @RichardDawkins
It is a silly position, postmodernism. But it seems to be a symptom of a larger problem.
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Replying to @LawrenceOBrazil @RichardDawkins
I think it's the essence of it. The purest form of the intellectual shift away from reason. Wrote this about it.https://areomagazine.com/2017/03/27/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained/ …
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Replying to @HPluckrose @RichardDawkins
Very interesting reading. I am deeply antagonistic towards postmodernism myself. But I believe that its ideas are not new at all
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In fact, I've been working in a comparison between postmodern ideas and the discourse of the sophists in Plato's dialogues.
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Replying to @LawrenceOBrazil @RichardDawkins
Oh, really? I can see that but also some elements v specific to now. But I think we do recycle ideas.
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and use them in different combinations.
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