From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 08 2003 - 22:18:55 GMT
Samuel,
Samuel said:
Yet, I cannot see how a postmodernist could proclaim "there is no ultimate
truth", because that proclamation, if true, would be the ultimate truth,
now, wouldn't it!?!?
Matt:
This is the bad news Platt has been trying to peg on postmodernism for a
while. This self-referential paradox isn't a good thing. It tells you
you've made a move that goes against one of the assumptions or rules of the
game. It's also why the official post-modern line I'm touting says that
"Post-moderns do not want to play the game of looking for ultimate truth."
On a good day, when we hang up our proclamations set to the tone of the old
vocabulary, proclamations said to shake a person's assumptions up,
post-moderns will reply to the question "Is there Ultimate Truth?": "Mu,
unask the question."
Slogans like "There is no Ultimate Truth," "Truth is power," and "God is
dead" have their uses. But many times they are a bit misleading.
Matt
p.s. Welcome Samuel and thanks for joining the conversation.
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