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Mere-Orthodoxy: Carter and Po-Mo

Friday, September 30, 2005

Carter and Po-Mo

The always thoughtful Joe Carter has one of the best characterizations of post-modernism I've read on the web. It's clear, concise, and right to the point. The money quote: "The postmodern worldview puts all ethical knowledge squarely within the realm of epistemology, and since all knowledge is individual, moral statements are simply matters of opinion."

posted by Matthew Anderson @ 9/30/2005 12:22:00 AM   2 comments

2 Comments:

At 9/30/2005 11:12:00 AM, Blogger Andrew M. Bailey said...

I don't see at all how that follows. All instances of knowledge are also instances of a knower; they are, in this sense "individual." But knowledge implies truth; if any subject knows that p, then p is true.

Now, if one does not subscribe to an objective theory of truth, then this might suggest what Carter claims (I have not read the context of the quotation)--but that has nothing to do with matters epistemic and ethical--it is a matter of the metaphysics of truth.

 
At 10/02/2005 12:59:00 AM, Blogger Keith said...

Good point, Bailey. Knowledge (which is had by persons) is never not-personal... the question, I guess, is whether it is
merely personal, that is, personal in some restrictive sense.

Are truth claims about mathematics, if made by an individual, therefore of no universal consequence?

 

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