tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356835.post5000388281860752553..comments2023-05-23T10:17:03.252+02:00Comments on 21st Century Schizoid Man: Postmodernism, Dishonesty and Its Effects...John F. Opiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445399643146235960noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356835.post-46853667680005009242009-03-29T16:12:00.000+02:002009-03-29T16:12:00.000+02:00Hi -Kid Mongo, put simply: Nietzsche was wrong.Ana...Hi -<BR/><BR/>Kid Mongo, put simply: Nietzsche was wrong.<BR/><BR/>Analyze his statement and you can see the contradiction: he is trying to state as a fact that there are no facts. This itself is a fact, negating his statement.<BR/><BR/>There are facts out there: this is what we learn from Descartes and from the phenomenological epoche.John F. Opiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00445399643146235960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356835.post-28044347415014350532009-03-27T15:04:00.000+01:002009-03-27T15:04:00.000+01:00"This boils post-modernism down to its fundamental..."This boils post-modernism down to its fundamentals: that there is no longer any truth. I learned in my first semester of philosophy how fallacious this is, that the statement itself, if true, contradicts what it states, making it false."<BR/><BR/>No, your understanding of the fundamentals of postmodernism misses one salient point. Perhaps Neitszche said it best: "There are no facts, only interpretations." And what has this world always been but an organism of competing interpretations? Is that perspective really "dishonest?" Really? For me, understanding that culture and language programs a being to exist within the parameters of that program is common sense, "not dishonesty."theseekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07837615195116522141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356835.post-8793807022908467312007-07-20T09:53:00.000+02:002007-07-20T09:53:00.000+02:00Hi -They actually taught me that: Duquesne Univers...Hi -<BR/><BR/>They actually taught me that: Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, a notorious hotbed of phenomenology back when I was there.<BR/><BR/>Phenomenology, especially hermeneutical phenomenology, is all about analyzing perception and forms the basis for a "new" science, one that is free of the positivist crisis that the world of modern science is still going through: how do we know that we really know something?<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the answer to that is, as usual, a life-long process. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for the comment!John F. Opiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00445399643146235960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9356835.post-50090274545403743892007-07-20T03:56:00.000+02:002007-07-20T03:56:00.000+02:00My German is pretty rusty, so I'll say this, auf E...My German is pretty rusty, so I'll say this, auf English. (Saw your post over at DrSanity, btw, and thought I would check it out.)<BR/><BR/>Sie haben gesacht, "I learned in my first semester of philosophy how fallacious this is, that the statement itself, if true, contradicts what it states, making it false."<BR/><BR/>Now, meine Frage ist, did they teach you that, or did you learn it in spite of them? It's an important distinction, because if you learned if from them that means there are still honest Philosophy depts around. I didn't think that was likely since post-modernism is (I think) the dominent school of thought today?<BR/><BR/>Of course, if you learned it yourself, in spite of them, that speeks well for you. Well, either way it's to your credit, but it's just that it's a lot harder to buck the system than to go along with it.<BR/><BR/>And that first part raises another question in my mind, and that is, how on earth would a philosophy dept., teach one to determine truth and then justify ignoring it? I mean, one has to learn logic when studuing philosophy, no? And that would inevitably lead one to realize that post modernism is screwed up. So how do those who teach it get around that little problem?<BR/><BR/>Viele Dank!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com