digitalwanderer said:
Oh, and Logen says:
logen99999 over at that place I can't go anymore since they permabanned me said:
Postmodernism is a recent way of thinking that does not believe in social science or science in general. It influenced literature, art, and politics heavily. I think it argues that scientific knowledge is a spawn of social bias and economic interests.
Cultural relativism in a non biased look at a certain culture, the same applies for ethical I think, bleh
christian existentialism is I think something like a isolated belief and trust in the Christian way of life. ontological objectivity and subjectivity I think deals with the nature of being either of the two.
bourgeois means citizen, like Bourgeoisie being the oppressed group according to marx.
i understand anathema as a curse of some sort, used in folk lore.
ethos are the traits of a culture or a group of people
pathos has to do with art I think, not sure exactly your best bet is too look some of these up, or check the back of your book for definitions.
Eheh, not many correct answers there...
Post-modernism isn't something you can put a finger on that easily, it just means 'what comes after modernism', where modernism is the late 19th-century 'age', if you will. Modernism is/was the belief that progress through science and technology would inevitably lead to a utopia(look at Jules Verne, H.G. Wells). Well, the world wars took care of that naive optimism... Post-modernism is about disillusionment, realism, existentialism. Where Modernism saw the world inevitably going towards a future utopia, post-modernism sees the world inevitably going towards a dystopia, i.e. everything WILL go to shit, which you certainly see influences of in contemporary culture, I'm sure.
*blank* relativism sort of means objectivity, but those who spout it the most like a catchphrase(mainly conservatives), have a slightly different meaning to it. Cultural relativism is that you don't judge any culture, it's theirs and we have ours. To some, this is cowardice and say that some cultures(notably their own) are superior to others. They call the former relativism.
Ethos is a code, abstract or concrete, by which you do things/lead your life/sees the world. So that was right, sort of.
": the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution" - Webster dictionary
Pathos means compassion and empathy. When you say someone have a strong pathos, you mean he genuinly care for fellow man.
Bourgeois doesn't come from Marx, but from the French word for city-dwellers. It came to mean the old middleclass, the businessmen and white-collar of the day that wasn't aristocracy. That was what Marx meant.
