This is why the current attempts to rescue postmodernism from amorality with resort to "solid" biological truth will fail, for example.
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In this schema, man is an animal whose survival entailed certain power structures, whose greatest successes and accumulated wisdom are
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allegedly abstracted away (somehow) to become transcendent truth. This explanation, meant to save morality, consigns man's essential choice
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to a function of biology, and makes from man a very complicated machine that invents "the truth" from its own wiring. Why one ought not
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ignore such wiring is unclear; something to do with survival, itself not compelling. This is a very abstract example. But there are much
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simpler versions of the same thing. Man's fundamental free choice is meant to be less important than his IQ or his genetics; this is
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dehumanizing. No less dehumanizing is the only form of choice acceptable to the postmodern nihilist, the willful whim.
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That *reality* should simply be as one wills is a mockery of the essential human choice, replacing self-sacrifice with self-expression.
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The ace in the sleeve of our society, that science and technology will save us, is only encouraging if we can retain moral agency,
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which is in turn not a concern at all for those doing most of the sciencing - they do not believe in it, though it underlies their endeavor.
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Interesting. Markets are implicitly a tool to deal with this: systems to satisfy material needs that are robust to human evil.
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Or even differently, to use a relatively benign vice (avarice) to check a more harmful one (wrath). See _The Passions and the Interests_
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I think the relative success of market systems derives from the fact that they allow for human choice without rejecting objective truth.
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