Unit 09 Postmodernism questions and answers graded A+ 2023/2024

Unit 09 PostmodernismIn Postmodernism, what is prime reality--the really real? - correct answer Reality is socially constructed by those in power In Postmodernism, what is the nature of external reality, that is, the world around us? - correct answer Subject to social interpretation by those in power In Postmodernism, what is a human being? - correct answer Creates own meaning/morality by those in power In Postmodernism, what happens to a person at death? - correct answer Cease to exist In Postmodernism, why is it possible to know anything at all? - correct answer Truth is an oppressive idea In Postmodernism, how do we know what is right and wrong? - correct answer Subjective—sociological, determined by those in power In Postmodernism, what is the meaning of human history? - correct answer Your story, my story, and no larger story; no heroes; metanarratives oppress In Postmodernism, what personal, life-orienting core commitments are consistent with this worldview? - correct answer "Whatever," you choose What happens when a culture loses its philosophic center? - correct answer Everything changes, including the whole superstructure of cutlure and even each person's view of who he/she is. Who are 5 postmodern thinkers? - correct answer Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish One definition of postmodernism describes it view of metanarratives: what is that view? - correct answer incredulity (disbelief) Define metanarrative. - correct answer a single story that holds a culture together What is the attitude of postmodernism toward the variety of stories people have? - correct answer No story can have more credibility than any other. Where does pre-modernism begin when asking worldview questions, with being or with knowing? - correct answer with being Where does modernism begin when asking worldview questions, with being or with knowing? - correct answer with being Where does postmodernism begin when asking worldview questions, with being or with knowing? - correct answer with knowing What is the 3-part shift from pre-modern to modern to postmodern as it relates to the idea of justice? - correct answer Premodern believed in a just society based on revelation from a just God; modern attempted to use universal reason as the guide to justice; Post-modern has given up hope of any universal standard for justice. Which of the 3 major periods of worldview development in the western world is most closely tied to the idea of progress? - correct answer the modern What is the essense of the "modern" worldviews? - correct answer the autonomy of human reason, which they thought liberated the human mind from the authority of the ancients. Who said, "I think, therefore I am." - correct answer Descartes For the postmodernist looking at the quotation, "I think, therefore I am," which comes first, the "I" or the "thinking"? - correct answer the thinking