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Modernism vs. Post - Modernism - Coggle Diagram
Modernism vs. Post - Modernism
Skepticism
What is it?
The attitude of doubting knowledge claims set forth in various areas.
They have challenged the reliability of these claims
What principles they are based upon
What they actually establish
Since the Enlightenment
It has come to mean: disbelief
Skeptic has often been likened to the village atheist
Richard Rorty (04/10/31 - 08/06/07)
Differences
Modernism
Focus on the writer
Search of an abstract truth
Enlightenment: logic and rational thinking
Rejection of realism
Optimistic view of the world
Post-modernism
Ambivalence towards realism
Focus on the reader
unscientific and irrational thinking
No universal truth belief
Hopeless view
