Comments on: What is Postmodernism? http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20060725-what-is-postmodernism Spirituality // Technology // Emerging Ecclesiology Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:46:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Justin's Dad http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20060725-what-is-postmodernism#comment-48689 Justin's Dad Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:46:57 +0000 http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20060725-what-is-postmodernism#comment-48689 I think the charge of arrogance is overblown. Modernists, I would argue are confident of what they believe. I can see how confidence could be mistaken for arrogance, but I do not believe they are the same. However, to say that modernists are "too confident" lacks moral authority. But I suppose that from a postmodern viewpoint arrogance is neither right nor wrong, objectively. What does it mean for a postmodernist to view a modernist as arrogant? Isn't that an ethical denunciation? Simply because it doesn't work for the postmodernist, does that mean it is any less valuable to the modernist? In my way of thinking, as warpped as that may be, to call someone arrogant is a negative moral value judgment against that person. But according to postmodernism, ethical values are established by the community or the individual. But if this is so, what right do postmodernists have to make such a value judgment? This seems to be a logical inconsistency. Most modernists live in a modern community that does not see its views as arrogant. Is it not just as arragant for someone outside this community to pass value judgment on it? I think the charge of arrogance is overblown. Modernists, I would argue are confident of what they believe. I can see how confidence could be mistaken for arrogance, but I do not believe they are the same. However, to say that modernists are “too confident” lacks moral authority. But I suppose that from a postmodern viewpoint arrogance is neither right nor wrong, objectively. What does it mean for a postmodernist to view a modernist as arrogant? Isn’t that an ethical denunciation? Simply because it doesn’t work for the postmodernist, does that mean it is any less valuable to the modernist?

In my way of thinking, as warpped as that may be, to call someone arrogant is a negative moral value judgment against that person. But according to postmodernism, ethical values are established by the community or the individual. But if this is so, what right do postmodernists have to make such a value judgment? This seems to be a logical inconsistency. Most modernists live in a modern community that does not see its views as arrogant. Is it not just as arragant for someone outside this community to pass value judgment on it?

]]> By: Justin http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20060725-what-is-postmodernism#comment-47934 Justin Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:24:19 +0000 http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20060725-what-is-postmodernism#comment-47934 Anything you'd add to this list? Anything you’d add to this list?

]]> By: UrbanAlchemist http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20060725-what-is-postmodernism#comment-47625 UrbanAlchemist Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:01:42 +0000 http://www.radicalcongruency.com/20060725-what-is-postmodernism#comment-47625 I think that post-modernism reinforces religion. As I understand it the shift from modernism to post-modernism contains with in it a shift from the literal to the metaphorical. Traditional religions make little sense when understood literally. They are all mutually exclusive. When understood metaphorically you can draw from their storys the healing, life affirming, beautifying messages they contain. Then they all become mutually supporting. Their myriad forms are simply an expression of the enormous diversity of the soul. At one time Jesus' message might resonate with your life at the next Mohammed's. We are lucky to have such great access to so many glorious myths through which to live our lives. I think that post-modernism reinforces religion. As I understand it the shift from modernism to post-modernism contains with in it a shift from the literal to the metaphorical. Traditional religions make little sense when understood literally. They are all mutually exclusive. When understood metaphorically you can draw from their storys the healing, life affirming, beautifying messages they contain. Then they all become mutually supporting. Their myriad forms are simply an expression of the enormous diversity of the soul. At one time Jesus’ message might resonate with your life at the next Mohammed’s. We are lucky to have such great access to so many glorious myths through which to live our lives.

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