Chapter 7 World Views Postmodernism questions well answered rated A+ 2023/2024

Chapter 7 World Views PostmodernismPostmodernism? - correct answer Skeptical worldview founded as a reaction to modernism Postmodernism is a reaction to what? - correct answer Evils of modernism Postmodernism believes that truth claims are what? - correct answer Power claims What is social construct? - correct answer Truth is a collection of artifacts Postmodernism means what? - correct answer After modernism Time period of modernism? - correct answer What 4 key things does modernism believe? - correct answer Human reason Empiricism (we only know what we perceive) Science Technology Why cant Postmodernism trust truth? - correct answer Bias Truth is not universal, objective, or neutral What are the Abrahamic faiths? - correct answer Judaism, Christianity, and Islam What does Postmodernism say about Abrahamic faiths? - correct answer They are oppressive by pressing beliefs on others so we are "forcing" truth Christianity vs Postmodernism - correct answer No God No soul No after-life We are not fallen No bible No heaven/hell 7 assumptions of Postmodernism - correct answer 1)no universal truth 2)no reason 3)we are all bias 4)world is too complex to have absolute truth 5)no god 6)society is bias 7)nobody is neutral (we cannot be objective) What three philosophers can Postmodernism be traced through? - correct answer Gorgias Nietzsche Foucault Who was the Father of Postmodernism? - correct answer Nietzsche Foucault contribute towards Postmodernism? - correct answer He was mental and homosexual Rejected absolute truth Tried to liberate humanity God is dead How does Postmodernism use language to discredit other world views? - correct answer Language is the tool of power and manipulation to create and control society Build philosophy around relationship What is Structuralism? - correct answer Reality is the product of language What is Poststructuralism? - correct answer We do not know the world but we can interpret it - impossible to have objective reality Who wrote a book in 1984 about news speak and language? - correct answer Orwell What is Deconstruction? - correct answer Words cannot describe objects Interpretation is more than the words Questions literary ability What is Metranarrative? - correct answer Story of where we came from and how we got here What does Postmodernism mean by anti-realism? - correct answer Denial of existence and reality Nothing is real What is anti-realism? - correct answer Denial of existence and reality Is it accurate to call Postmodernism a worldview? - correct answer Yes. It has its own pattern of beliefs and all- that it is all not real Their belief is that they do not belive Does Postmodernism accept science? - correct answer They think of it as a coping matter rather than gaining knowledge What does Postmodernism say about humanity? - correct answer No identity No soul No mind Dont consider us people- body, unit, subject Nothing but highly evolving sexual animals