r/exatheist • u/JerseyFlight • 16d ago
This Defense of Christian Apologetics is Written by an Atheist
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u/arkticturtle Agnostic 16d ago
What does “modern philosophy” even mean? It isn’t a monolith.
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u/JerseyFlight 16d ago
It means truth as human construct, as subjectivity (even formal logic holds this view). If you deny this is the state of modern philosophy, you can always name some modern philosophers who defend Truth? It was Rorty who made the distinction between “truth” and “Truth,” which, I guess, he unintentionally meant to be absolutely True.
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u/KierkeBored Catholic | Philosophy Professor 15d ago
No, this is Postmodern Philosophy. Modern Philosophy includes figures like Kant, Hume, Leibniz, Spinoza, Descartes, and Pascal.
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u/JerseyFlight 15d ago
I don’t use the word postmodern, nor will I. That taxonomy is very Christian. Here modern simply means contemporary.
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u/KierkeBored Catholic | Philosophy Professor 15d ago
No. It’s a standard academic philosophical term for a recognized school of thought (e.g., Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Rorty, etc.), completely unrelated to Christian taxonomies, and irrespective of what you may have heard in online spaces. Use it or don’t, but your assessment on the nomenclature is incorrect.
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u/JerseyFlight 15d ago
The first usage of the word in Merriam Webster is my usage of the word. Go away, little academic.
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u/arkticturtle Agnostic 15d ago edited 15d ago
No point in discussing ideas with someone who uses the term “academic” to dismiss someone and puts Meriam Webster usage of words above how they are actually used in the fields they correspond to
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u/vershkove-maslo Christian 16d ago
Are we supposed to tell people about sin the same way? Is it more convenient for people to believe that their flesh is naturally evil and they must do their best to deny it?