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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.
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Truth and error are synonymous - Facts,
postmodernists claim, are too limiting to determine anything.
Changing erratically, what is fact today can be false tomorrow.
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Self-conceptualization and rationalization
- Traditional logic and objectivity are spurned by postmodernists.
Preferring to rely on opinions rather than embrace facts,
postmodernist spurn the scientific method.
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Traditional authority is false and corrupt
- Postmodernists speak out against the constraints of religious
morals and secular authority. They wage intellectual revolution to
voice their concerns about traditional establishment.
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Ownership - They claim that collective
ownership would most fairly administrate goods and services.
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Disillusionment
with modernism - Postmodernists rue the unfulfilled promises of
science, technology, government, and religion.
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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.
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Globalization
– Many postmodernists claim that national boundaries are a hindrance
to human communication. Nationalism, they believe, causes wars.
Therefore, postmodernists often propose internationalism and uniting
separate countries.
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All
religions are valid - Valuing inclusive faiths, postmodernists
gravitate towards New Age religion. They denounce the exclusive
claims of Jesus Christ as being the only way to God.
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Liberal
ethics - Postmodernists defend the cause of feminists and
homosexuals.
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