The Baha'i Studies Listserv That's a nice paper, but wouldn't just be easier to say PoMo contradicts itself the same way Nihilism does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_nihilism PoMo is the same as nihilism in that saying PoMo is true, includes or leads to PoMo is false. PoMo is inconsistent internally and externally, such that people can't be a PoMoist while being anything else, while believe in known fact, or even while being a PoMoist. Sent from my iPad On Jan 27, 2013, at 20:05, Ian Kluge <iankl...@netbistro.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > If you are intyerested in a detailed critique of postmodernism in regards to > the Faith, see my "Postmodernism and the Baha'i Writings" in "Lights of > Irfan", Vol. 9, 2008" or at > http://www.bahaiphilosophystudies.com/articles/?p=24 > > Bst wishes, > > Ian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stephen Kent Gray > To: Baha'i Studies > Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 5:28 PM > Subject: Re: Feminism and a Blog War > > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > I should have added some more to the first email, but I will wait for > question to answer them. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Jan 26, 2013, at 0:19, Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> The Baha'i Studies Listserv >> Not the best subject title, but the least worst rather. >> >> http://arationalfaith.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/bahai-feminism-women-and-the-universal-house-of-justice/ >> >> That's the link to my correspondence with A Rational Faith blog. >> >> It's real complicated to summarize the topic, so I'll just have you read the >> blog and the comments. >> The comments deal with various topics. >> >> The issues of feminism, sexism, free will, individuality, theory versus >> practice, moral responsibility, etc. >> They and many more issues are brought up and dealt with. >> >> The author is a Bahai who subscribes to a combination of Marxism, post >> colonialism, and post modernism. >> He always phrases everything in terms of theory. He believes theories are >> intrinsic and unqualified goods. >> >> I'll share a criticism of Post Modernism. >> >> Pomo robs people of hope that society is eliminating its prejudices and >> progressing towards truth. >> It leaves people doomed to a world of perpetual blind prejudice, with well >> educated people able to point >> out other people's prejudices but not their own. >> >> Now for Marxism! >> >> Marxism says society is run by evil vampires, anyone who Marxists don't >> like, and that violent revolution is the >> inevitable, mandatory, solitary, etc. result. >> >> While I never said anything about metaphysics in the piece. He constructs a >> straw argument in I argued for >> radical un constrained free will as existed and atomism. He uses the >> negation of said argument to possibly >> go to the opposite extreme of determinism. I've already pointed out the flaw >> of PoMo. >> >> Actually, I've never had a developed metaphysics of free will, I heavily >> leans toward Oriental Compatibilism. I also >> refer to evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-685251-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
