Contradictory legacy of the Enlightenment
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angličtina
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Contradictory legacy of the Enlightenment
Original language description
What do postmodern philosophers say of the Enlightenment? The basis of modern rationality is the belief that the world is logical and rational and that it is within the power of human reason to understand its logic and use it in predicting and controlling world events. This gives rise to the idea that knowledge is a picture of the world, that the human mind can more or less accurately reflect external, non-human "objective" reality. Truth (truthfulness) can then be defined as the correspondence between our knowledge (our statements) and the very objective world, of which these claims speak. If we search for the ontological-noetic premises of the philosophy of postmodernism, we find out that the foundations of postmodernism is the denial of the existence of a single objective world as the object of our perception, which was the focus of so-called Enlightenment programme and its subject-object Cartesian philosophy. We live in a world formed by an ambitious legacy of the Enlightenment. This epochal development has increased the range of human liberties, prepared our minds to the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and individual consent was promoted to the centre of the political stage. The text analyses the legacy of the Enlightenment project viewed from the perspective of postmodern theory. J. F. Lyotard, the testimony about the not representable is greatest value of art. The requirement of unity, reconciliation of the concept and the perceivable by senses are a symbol of terror for him. Therein lie the common features of Lyotard's definitions of postmodern art and postmodern knowledge: to refer to wat is not representable and incommunicable, to preserve contradictions and paradoxes, resisting consensus and unity totalitarianism.
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Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AA - Philosophy and religion
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V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Pojmy a jejich hranice. Reflexe proměny pojmu člověka ve společenských vědách
ISBN
978-80-248-3996-7
Number of pages of the result
6
Pages from-to
10-16
Number of pages of the book
216
Publisher name
Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava
Place of publication
Ostrava
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