A helpful review for understanding cultural changes in our times.
We live in a postmodern world. Or, so we’re told. What does this mean? Postmodern is a word used to describe changes in way people think — especially the way they view truth and reality.
Understanding post-modernity requires a review of modernity and the pre-modern world. What are the main differences in these eras?
Pre-modern, modern, post-modern
The pre-modern era was one in which religion was the primary source for truth and reality. God’s existence and revelation from God were widely accepted in the pre-modern world.
In the modern era, science became the predominate source of truth and reality. Religion (and the morality based on it) were arbitrarily demoted to a subjective realm.
In the postmodern era, there is no specific defining source for truth and reality beyond individual preference.
Post-modern
In postmodernity, relativism and individualism are radicalized and applied to all spheres of knowledge — even science. Truth…
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