Postmodern worldview
We all view the world around us through a prism that colors or distorts what we see. Many prefer to live under a global, non-political government without tribal or national boundaries and one that is sensitive to the socioeconomic equality for all people.
There are several implications of confronting reality this way.
As a result of these changes, pastors, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists are stretched to the limit as they try to help overwhelming numbers of people pick up the broken pieces of their lives and become whole again. For example, transcendental groups whose social construction of reality is that the physical world is illusory, still find themselves constrained by the physical reality of time and space.
But before modern, there was pre-modern.
Postmodern worldview philosophy
Liberal ethics - Postmodernists defend the cause of feminists and homosexuals. Richard Rorty suggests pragmatism. Obviously these warnings apply to us just as much as they did in the first century. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Learn more about the research in which the worldview-test was developed, here. This article discusses postmodernism in philosophy. Pre-modern era was one in which religion was the source of truth and reality. It was during this same period that we experienced a massive societal shift away from the institution of marriage and family. Postmodernists deny this Enlightenment faith in science and technology as instruments of human progress. This is not accidental. However, the thinking in a particular culture affects the next culture and the way people think.They challenge the core religious and capitalistic values of the Western world and seek change for a new age of liberty within a global community. It is reasonable to expect that future societies will be more humane, more just, more enlightenedand more prosperous than they are now.
The postmodern view of language and discourse is due largely to the French philosopher and literary theorist Jacques Derrida —the originator and leading practitioner of deconstruction. Postmodernism is full of self-contradiction.
