Bible - Postmodernism(questions & answers)graded A+ 2023/2024

Bible - PostmodernismCan you summarize the postmodern worldview in a few words (5) - correct answer -a reaction to the evils of modernism -views truth claims as political power plays -views truth is a social construct -ultimate knowledge is inaccessible -suspicious of metanarratives If "Postmodernism" means "after modernism" what is modernism - correct answer modernism is characterized by a strong belief in human reason, empiricism, science, and technological progress, as well as skepticism toward religion empricism - correct answer the idea that we can only know what our senses can perceive and what can be scientifically verified how does postmodernism define truth (7) - correct answer -we cannot have objective knowledge -truth is not objective, universal, or neutral -truth is socially "situated" or "embedded" and "socially constructed" --we can not have unmediated, direct, or immediate access to reality -truth is subject to opinion -the idea of objective truth is actually used to oppress others -all worldviews are biased in their notions of reality and claims about truth Seven assumptions on which postmodernism rests - correct answer -universal truth can't be known. All we can know is if our individual experiences are true for us -reason is subjective. Reasonableness depends on whatever we find reasonable -objective knowledge is a myth. no one is neutral - we are all situated in our experiences -the world is too complex to be explained by any worldview claiming to have objective knowledge of absolute truth -there is no God to give meaning to the world. We have to draw our own meaning for our existence and experiences -societies, like humans, are biased. humans shape societies according to their view of reality. which is biased by nature -no one is neutral. Our cultures, languages, histories and genders color how we see everything What did Gorgias contribute to what became postmodernism (2) - correct answer -the sophists were known, and later ridiculed, for constructing persuasive arguments without regard to truthfulness -nihilist, someone who believes that everything is without meaning, purpose, truth or value What did Friedrich Nietzsche contribute to Postmodernism (5) - correct answer -father of postmodernism -helped resurrect sophism -an adamant atheist proclaiming, "God is dead" -thought that once we abandoned our belief in God, all truth, meaning and morality would die along with him -nihilism How does postmodernism use language to discredit other worldviews (3) - correct answer -postmodernism dismisses other worldviews by focusing on how they use language as a tool of power and manipulated to create and control society -there is no necessary relationship between a description and what's being described -words are words and things are things and they aren't intrinsically connected what are structuralism and post-structuralism? What role do they play in postmodernism? - correct answer -structuralism is ant intellectual movement that believes human knowledge is not based on an accurate understanding of reality but is the product of language developed over time - the way we use language causes us to view facts differently based on our experiences -poststructuralism - they think the world can't be directly known, but only personally interpreted -since language structures our relationships, our talk about the objects in the world isn't really about those objects; it's about our own views and motivations -poststructuralists see language as a tool of oppression