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It died in a wave of post-modernist thought crashing on the west. Post-modernists genuinely believe that objectivity is impossible. You'll see it in this very c
by seneca 6y ago
It died in a wave of post-modernist thought crashing on the west. Post-modernists genuinely believe that objectivity is impossible. You'll see it in this very comment section, I'm sure.
And, interestingly, at the core of it they're right. It's impossible for a human being to be truly objective. The value is in the pursuit of that ideal though, like many others, not in expecting to perfectly attain it. People seem to have lost that idea.
- shkkmo 6y agoAre you saying that the impossibility of objective truth is objectively true but effectively useless?
- seneca 6y agoI don't think I said anything objective truth, if it read that way I did a poor job. I am pretty far from believing that there is no objective truth. I was simply saying that there is merit to the idea that human beings themselves can not communicate objectively. Wittgenstein talked about it in a way I tend to agree with. Post-modernism runs wild with his ideas and ends up at things like "there is no objective truth".