Template:Critical theory, modernism and the death of objective truth: Difference between revisions

@@ Line 27: / Line 27: @@
 {{Drop|A|t this point}} two self-refuting mythological creatures are cast into the ring: “atheists in foxholes”, and “postmodernists on aeroplanes”. Neither, according to the other, exists.
-“Show me,” [[Richard Dawkins]] huffs, “a [[relativist]] on a plane and I’ll show you a hypocrite at 30,000 feet”.
+“Show me,” [[Richard Dawkins]] huffs, “a [[cultural relativist]] at thirty thousand feet and I’ll show you a hypocrite a”.
 By the fact that he takes his argument no further, we expect Dawkins believes he has won it, [[quod erat demonstrandum]]. There are objective truths, everyone knows it, and this [[postmodernist]] blather to the contrary is all a ''posture''. Because — ''aeroplanes''.

Navigation menu