Postmodern Trends in Philosophy Suggest a New Vision of God and Morality

CONTENTS
Chapter
INTRODUCTION
1. POSTMODERNISM: AN ANALYSIS
1.1 What is Postmodernism?
1.1.1 Origin of Postmodernism
1.1.2 Modernism Vs Postmodernism
1.1.2.1 Postmodernity Begins where Modernity Ends
1.1.2.2 Postmodernism is a Continuation of Modernism
1.1.3 Differentiating Postmodernism and Postmodernity
1.2 The Historical Development of Postmodernism
1.2.1 Martin Heidegger
1.2.2 Friedrich Nietzsche
1.3 Characteristics of Postmodernism
1.3.1 Shift of Emphasis
1.3.1.1 A Move from Meta-narratives to Mini-narratives
1.3.1.2 A Move to Question the Transparency of Language
1.3.1.3 A Move to Question the Objectivity
1.3.2 Religion in the Postmodern Philosophy
1.4 Challenges Offered by Postmodernism
2. POSTMODERN ETHICS: A NEW VISION OF MORALITY
2.1 A Perusal of Modern Ethics
2.1.1 Universalism and its Discontents
2.1.2 Wittgenstein’s Denial of Ethical Propositions
2.2 Progression to Postmodern Ethics
2.2.1 Virtue Ethics: Focusing on Human Life Rather than Human Rules.
2.2.2 The ‘Will to Power’ of Nietzsche
2.3 Ethics of Postmodern Philosophers
2.3.1 Levinas: “An Ethics before Ethics”
2.3.1.1 A Move from Totalization
2.3.1.2 Recovery of Autonomy of Subjectivity
2.3.1.3 Levinas’ Ethics as a Foundation for Radical Pluralism
2.3.2 Ethics of Jean-Francois Lyotard
2.3.2.1 Demise of Grand Narrative
2.3.2.2 The Differend
2.4 Characteristics of Postmodern Ethics
2.4.1 Postmodern Ethics: An Ethics without Ethical Code
2.4.2 Postmodern Ethics: An Ethics of Relativism
2.5 Postmodern Ethics: A Buddhist Response
2.5.1 Buddhist Ethics as Emotion
2.5.2 Buddhist Ethics on Basis of Motivations
2.5.3 Buddhist Ethics as Naturalistic
3. POSTMODERN THEODICY: A NEW VISION OF GOD
3.1 God in the Philosophical History
3.2.1 Greek Philosophy and Reason
3.2.2 Medieval Philosophy: A