[extropy-chat] Re: The Force of Human Freedom

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

I never liked the term Post-modernism too much, but here you are using
it to group together two concepts (cultural and moral relativism,
anti-scientism) that have nothing to do with each other.
On the contrary I think that cultural and moral relativism is an
application of the scientific method to cultural and moral thinking:
recognizing that "absolutes" actually depend on who is measuring what
and how.
G.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:23:48 -0600, Greg Burch <gregburch at gregburch.net> wrote:
But I'll say in a nutshell what I think needs to happen to combat what
I see as essentially a cultural war of gargarntuan proportions:
Enlightenment Modernism (of which I see transhumanism as the current
cutting edge) is fighting a two-front war against Pre-modernism
(militant religiosity, most especially militant Islam) and
Post-modernism (e.g. cultural and moral relativism, anti-scientism).