From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 22:33:43 BST
Johnny,
Johnny said:
Post Modernists ought to convince us that we need to shore up our culture
and get together for morality's sake, get people to respect morality more
so that we are more on the same page about truth and right. I think that
if morality is stronger, people are more inclined to believe in
absolutes. When people are inclined to thumb their noses at morality, all
absolutes get nose-thumbed too.
Matt:
You've been talking a lot lately about morality and protecting morality and
I'd like to add my post-modernist thoughts because I don't think many
post-modernists want to "get together for morality's sake." Rorty and
Fish's point (to name two) is that reflecting on morality isn't going to
make us more moral. The pragmatist doesn't want to discuss morality itself
because she thinks it leads to dead-end philosophical problems, not
improved moral thinking. Post-modernists don't want to discuss Morality
for the same reason they do not want to discuss Truth: they don't think the
first will do anything for us being moral, just as the second won't do
anything for us being truthful. Post-modernists simply want to play
Locke's role of philosophical underlaborer, clearing the ground of
conceptual debris. But we don't think that this will help us make moral
decisions, other than letting us bypass arguments about the nature of
morality. We are simply redescribing moral "principles" into moral "rules
of thumb."
Matt
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