POSTMODERNISM

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When listing the chracteristics of postmodernism, it important to remember that postmodernists place their philosophy a defined box or category. Their beliefs practices are personal rather than being identifiable with a particular establishment or special interest group. The following principles appear elemental to postmodernists.There is no absolute truth - Postmodernists believe that the notion of truth is a contrived illusion, misused by people and special interest groups to gain power over others.Truth and error are synonymous - Facts, postmodernists claim, are too limiting to determine anything. Changing erratically, what is fact today be false .Self-conceptualization and rationalization - Traditional logic and objectivity are spurned by postmodernists. Preferring to rely on rather than embrace facts, postmodernist spurn the scientific .Traditional authority is and corrupt - Postmodernists out against the constraints of religious morals and secular authority. They wage intellectual revolution to voice their concerns about traditional establishment.Ownership - They claim that collective ownership would most fairly administrate goods and services.Disillusionment with modernism - Postmodernists rue the unfulfilled promises of science, technology, government, and religion.Morality is personal - Believing ethics to be relative, postmodernists subject morality to personal opinion. They define morality as each person’s private code of ethics without the need to follow traditional values and rules.Globalization – Many postmodernists claim that national boundaries are a hindrance to human communication. Nationalism, they believe, causes . Therefore, postmodernists often propose internationalism and uniting separate countries.