Pomo is a bogeyman? It's what we call people to the epistemological left of us ? — Yellow Horse
And what is genuine value? — schopenhauer1
"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms" ---Socrates — Gnomon
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms" ---Socrates
— Gnomon
Is this even true? I like Hegel and he never defines his terms. He lets you figure the puzzle out for yourself. He wanted clear conceptions though the way Descartes wanted them, although Descartes was far smarter as a mathematician than Hegel. On the other hand, Hume and the Greek skeptics speak of a joy to be found through being very confused that I identify with. I don't know if it's moral to enjoy such a pleasure, but it seems natural to me and is part of my search for wisdom. Like Hegel, I want to know everything and nothing at the same time.
Enough..
I wanted to ask: is post-modernism simply relativism rehashed? Is it simply joy in confusion? — Gregory
I am going to be 35 in November (am a Scorpio). Life seems harder and harder to fully understand as one gets older. It's almost as if death is saying "give up on truth before it's too late, but not before" — Gregory
Why is physicality a requirement of an experiment. Why don't mental phenomena constitute that which can be studied by science? — Adam's Off Ox
Moral law isn't supposed to be explanatory. It's not descriptive, but prescriptive. — Pfhorrest
Now think of The Simpsons — schopenhauer1
Questions of norms, which is to say, prescriptive questions, questions about morality, are a fundamentally different kind of question to questions of fact, to which a descriptive statement gives no answer; something David Hume called the "is-ought problem". If someone asks whether something ought to happen, a statement to the effect that something does (or does not) happen gives no answer at all to that question. — Pfhorrest
Everything is linked to economics and resources in my opinion. — tilda-psychist
Nice to see the discussion has shifted from philosophy (qua discipline) to aesthetics and culture - as it should in any discussion of postmodernism. — StreetlightX
You might be confusing postmodernism with Post Structralism.The link between psychology and postmodern ideas of concepts, language and perspectives of reality makes for some truth values in their conclusions. — Christoffer
But postmodernism is still broader than just some conclusions easily dismissive — Christoffer
You be mistaking postmodernism with Post Structralism — Wheatley
? I'm not sure what I said implied I was talking about 'some conclusions easily dismissive'. To call something aesthetic or cultural is not at all to dismiss it. If anything to say so is to note it's far broader reach than some academic backwater movement. — StreetlightX
...to aesthetics and culture - as it should in any discussion of postmodernism. — StreetlightX
Maybe I read your comment as if postmodernism should only be about culture and aesthetics? — Christoffer
It's not about what it should be. It's about what it is - and that people need to understand what they are talking about before blabbing on about 'subjective truth' or whatever other wrongheaded trash they associate with postmodernism. — StreetlightX
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