Truth & Lies
She fabricated a trafficking story to raise money—does it matter if it wasn’t true?
Who is Somaly Mam?
What does Richard Rorty say beliefs should be treated as—tools for what?
What is achieving greater human happiness?
What philosophical movement did Postmodernism follow?
What is Modernism?
Jacques Derrida’s method of analyzing texts to expose hidden ideologies is called what?
What is deconstruction
Some Christians dismiss postmodernism as what?
What is a ridiculous denial of obvious truth?
Rigoberta Menchu’s false account was defended because it “told an important story.” What does this reveal about postmodern truth?
What is powerful communication, not factual accuracy?
Postmodernists reject the idea that knowledge can be ______ because we are all situated in our experiences.
What is objective?
Who argued “Nothing exists, nothing can be known, nothing can be communicated”?
Who is Gorgias?
What is a metanarrative?
What is a grand story that explains reality?
Name one Christian postmodernist thinker
Who is James K.A. Smith, Brian McLaren, Merold Westphal, Nancey Murphy, Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre?
What theory of truth says beliefs must correspond to reality, but is rejected by postmodernists?
What is the correspondence theory of truth?
Define empiricism.
What is the theory that all knowledge is based on sensory experience?
Which philosopher declared “God is dead” in his parable of the madman?
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Orwell’s 1984 introduced “Newspeak.” Name one example term.
What is Duckspeak, Unperson, Blackwhite, Thoughtcrime, Goodthink.?
In Christian postmodernism, sin is redefined as what?
What is disruption of relationships?
What logical fallacy assumes someone is wrong because of bias, instead of testing their argument?
What is Bulverism?
What danger arises when words are emptied of truth in postmodernism?
What is meaninglessness or nihilism?
Which thinker developed the “hermeneutic of suspicion” and rejected moral absolutes?
Who is Michel Foucault?
Poststructuralists argue we cannot know the world directly—only as we ______ it.
What is interpret?
What is the “hermeneutics of finitude”?
hat is the notion that we are finite and limited in our humanness?
Postmodernists say we don’t discover truth—we ______ it through social interactions.
What is construct?
If truth is just artifacts giving impressions, why might criticism not matter?
If it seems true to us, then it is true.
Name one of the seven assumptions Vanhoozer lists that define Postmodernism.
What is rejection of universal truth, reason, objectivity, modernist narratives, God’s-eye view, neutral institutions, neutrality of persons.
Who argued that language shapes not only thought but our approach to life?
Who is Edward Sapir?
Why is it spiritually dangerous to say “we cannot understand reality”?
Because it is stubborn sinfulness, not humility.