From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 18:00:52 BST
Sam,
Sam said:
My take on postmodernism (as evidenced by someone like Lyotard) is that it
is still trapped in what I call 'The meta-narrative of rational primacy',
which derives from John Locke saying that 'in everything let Reason be your
guide', especially in matters of ethics and religious belief. Modernism is
built on that basis; post-modernism says that reason can't achieve what the
Moderns think it can achieve, which is true, but they draw the false
conclusion that this means 'anything goes'. If you have a different guide
to ethics and religious belief (eg Quality or Value in the MoQ) then you
are outside the meta-narrative of rational primacy, which post-moderns are
still defined by, through rejection.
Matt:
C'mon, Sam. I may be a ghost around here these days, but the least you
could do is qualify your reference to post-modernism by a "vulgar" or a
"half-baked" or a "some." ;-) For instance, rather than "I expect the
above from MoQers," I would say, "I expect the above from
_vulgar/half-baked/some_ MoQers." You, I don't expect it from. Others, a
little bit.
Matt
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