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The book review pages of those journals are the graveyards of constructive academic philosophy, and any doubts as to whether rational consensus might not after all be achievable on modern academic moral philosophy can be put to rest by reading them through regularly.
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― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
― Whose Justice? Which Rationality?
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By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is grounded in narrative or myth, Lyotard relativizes (secular) philosophy's claim to autonomy and so grants the legitimacy of a philosophy that grounds itself in Christian faith. Previously such a distinctly Christian philosophy would have been exiled from the 'pure' arena of philosophy because of its
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― Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
― Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
