[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Be sure to click on the link below (in post #1) to see a primer on Postmodernism, and how Postmodernism (through 1-4 - given before the first post) is not based upon logic, reason, or rational thought.

An overview comparison of Modernism and Postmodernism:

Modernism: Truth can be discovered by reason and logical augmentation; Humans can progress through reason, science, objectivity and the scientific method.

Postmodernism: Truth does not exist objectively, there is no universal truth transcending culture, and progress is an oppressive Western concept.

Postmodernism is a rejection of logic, metaphysical logic (metaphysical certainty), reason, objectivity, the Enlightenment and the products of the Enlightenment - Representative Democracy, Western society, global market capitalism and so on - in favor of relativistic thought (moral relativism, cultural relativism, etc).

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen:

"Assent with intellectual certitude is threefold: (a) metaphysical, wherein there is absolutely no possibility for the truth of the opposite; (b) physical; and (c) moral, wherin there is a remore possibility for the truth of the contrary, but we have no sufficient reason to think this possibility will be fulfilled in the situation at hand."

"Assent (to certitude) is a conscious discernment and committment to the truth... Assent is the mind's ratification of the proposition it has formed."

Logical certainty is found in tautologies or statements that are true by definition. All circles are round, etc.

These things are not relative.

Metaphysical certainty: I know that I exist. This is true since I cannot deny my existence without existing to make the denial.

First principles of logic are also known for certain, since the subject and predicate say the same thing: "Being exists, Nonbeing is not Being." "Nonbeing cannot produce Being" is also ceratin since produce implies an existing producer.

These things are not relative, either.

When one also looks at the link below (in addition to this here), one can see why Postmodernistic thought should be rejected.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Postmodernism (Plus A Primer On Deconstructing One Of The Pillars Of Liberalism

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010240/posts

[HerrBlucher]

there is no universal truth

That is absolutely true.....er....um....wait a minute....hmmmmm....something isn't right here...

[HerrBlucher]

there is no universal truth

That is absolutely true.....er....um....wait a minute....hmmmmm....something isn't right here...

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[Forgiven_Sinner]

What puzzles me is why anyone gives post-modernism any credence at all. Any belief that refutes logic is by definition false. It can't prove its own validity.

I can only guess that post modernism is used cynically by politicians who wish to advance their own cause.

[Richard Kimball]

My premise on the rise of Post-Modernism, which started in Europe, is that two World Wars, encompassing the years from 1914 to 1918, 1939-1945, and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, and the aggression of Germany and Italy between the World Wars destroyed much of the European spirit. Post-modernism was an attempt to create a philosophy that could accommodate all beliefs. The premise that there is no absolute truth is silly. However, if you accept the premise of thesis and antithesis, you have conflict. After the devastation of the first half of the 20th Century, Europe had no taste for conflict.

Post-Modernism cannot accommodate Islamism, which demands that all other points of view subjugate themselves to Islam or face extermination, although it tries. Post-Modernism fell with the twin towers, but liberalism does not examine itself well. It will pretend that all cultures can be accommodated, despite all evidence to the contrary.