Benjamin Cain
Feb 14, 2025

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Good point, regarding the resolving of paradoxes. Maybe some so-called resolutions obscure more than they clarify.

I should say that I don't reject postmodern thinking entirely, but mean to critique postmodernism and incorporate some of its lessons.

The question for me is whether postmodern humility or hyper-skepticism entails that there are no absolute values. Such evaluations might require naïve trust in some metanarrative, so a postmodernist couldn't say even that Hitler was evil, let alone Trump. Postmodernists would be beyond good and evil, as they play their word games from a detached perspective of cynicism or virtual objectivity that's supposed to be impossible.

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Benjamin Cain
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