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Ultimate Reality Is Knowable Secular Humanist/Marxist (Physical) Cosmic Humanism (Spiritual) Christianity/Islam (God)
Unknowable
- pomo
It does not matter what you think the scripture means it matters what it means
History is not all its cracked up to be The good old days werent really good
Building Example Postmodernism is really critiquing humanism and modernism Gender-identity goes back to pomo no identity
Supernaturalism
Reason went up revelation went down Shipmaking boom (during age of exploration) Biology boom (crisis of belief because of new discovery in new world) Rene Descartes quote
Religious Skepticism (check notes modernity) Find the Big Story instead of read it
Age of Enlightenment
Nietsche and Karl Marx (God was center of society and now no God God is dead Philosophical)
Nietsche The Madman (read) Only one who knew utopia wouldnt happen because you got rid of God you must redefine everything
Sanger Planned Parenthood Loved Hitler and was racist Hitler got ideas from American scientists
Key thinkers Post modernist Fathers Nietzsche Derrida Of Grammatology book Deconstruction: meaning is not located in any text Beyond Good and Evil book Said God is dead Said Truth is an illusion
Foucault Madness of civilization book The Order of things book Discourses of power: language is used to oppress others
LOOK UP Anti-Foundationalism
Stanley Fish Theres no such thing as free speech: and its a good thing too (article)
No Big Story is a Big Story No absolute truths is an absolute statement No perspectives is a perspective