Postmodernism

Postmodernism
Postmodernism is an intellectual movement that occurred in the late 20th century, who carried out the tradition of philosophy and education that have been there before. Postmodernists do not agree on these thoughts, although there using it and return to tradition mereprosuksi. In epistemological postmodernists describe themselves as neo-pragmatists. It can be seen from pragmatic thinking and skepticism of radical skepticism that seem exaggerated against the power of reason, which was developed by the modernist vision of reality and turn it into pragmatic. This shows that the postmodernists still rely on reason in what they do, as modernist. Postmodernists adopt the skeptical arguments in pragmatism and use it so it appears that the conclusion that there is no ultimate truth. And that is the relationship between pragmatism and postmodern epistemology.

In the context of human nature, postmodernism emphasizes the determinism of the group, which produces the neo-behaviorism, which is the development of behaviorism. Behaviorism believes that human nature is constructed from the environment where he lived. Postmodernists argue that human nature is a liquid, in which human beings have a conscience and rationality of its own and was influenced by the ideas of Marxism and behaviorist emphasis on environmental determinism.
Under his influence, postmodernism can be classified as a neo-existentialism. This reflection reproduce thought Camus and Sartre in which, even if they do not agree, but existentialism is reproduced in the center of postmodern thought. In politics, postmodernism is a powerful political movement, and politics has become the main force that drives postmodernism. Marxism posmoderisme influence through its egalitarian, with an emphasis on socialism and power. Thus, we can say that the postmodern political movement can be called a neo-Marxist. As a movement, postmodernism is a movement hybrid, where he took an existing idea and reproduce it again in radikal.secara metaphysical, premodern postmodernism that emphasizes critical thinking in the modern natural and supernatural. Hicks said that postmodern epistemology is anti-idealist and anti-naturalistic. With this, the postmodern movement against the idea that already exists, but at the same time mengambilide-thought ideas that exist within it.