Understanding Postmodernism and Post Postmodernism
An understanding of postmodernism (and now post
postmodernism) is important because these philosophical viewpoints do not
consider what the Bible teaches about the nature, value, meaning and purpose of
music and musicing to be important in
the process of establishing a philosophical basis. Remember that modernists
believed that the Bible contained both truth and error, so their truth basis
was flawed. Postmodernists for the most part have not retained what the Bible
teaches in their knowledge or at least they have embraced pluralism in their
belief system.
They
believe that the stove can be hot and not hot at the same time. Post
postmodernists are experiencing further philosophical mutations of pluralism, nihilism,
and hedonism in their epistemology.
Therefore, it is not completely clear what truth basis, if any, they
will espouse since many of them believe in multiple perceived truths that are
equally valid at the same time. The one thing they know about truth is that it
is impossible to experience any objective truth. One thing that they know is
that we cannot know with certainty. Christian writers need to study the
development of this new direction in philosophy in order to assess how it will affect
music philosophy in the near future.
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