Word: modernisme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Post-modernism, today's dominant philosophical doctrine, is taking a grave and dangerous turn. In the past, post-modernism has limited its attacks to the humanities, but recently it has been trying to add science to its list of victims. The attack on science, objectivity's last stronghold, poses an...
Objectivity is fast becoming a word of the past. Post-modernism denounces any from of objective truth and with it any from of knowledge claiming that truth (and knowledge) is constructed subjectively, emanating from one's environment. Through denouncing objective standards for measuring truth, post-modernism has led to the...
In art, for example, according to post-modernism no one can rightfully claim that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is superior to a song called "Cop Killer." No one can justify that Michelangelo's "David" is a better work of art than Duchamp's "The Fountain" (an upside down urinal). There...
To discount the importance of science is even more preposterous. Science's project is revealing the truth that is often hidden from out bare perceptions. in stark contrast, postmodernism's project consists in destroying the very concept of objectivity and truth. And for post-modernism to complete its project, science...
The attack on science is taking place on two fronts--one direct, the other indirect. The direct attack is an attempt to render science subjective and hence to place it on equal ground with the rest of the disciplines which have already been infected by post-modernism's ideas. The...