WorldViews: Philosophy Among the Ruins: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

 Philosophy Among the Ruins: The Twentieth Century and Beyond  

                                               

Twentieth century was truly a time of searching for meaning from what is or has been done by others. In another words, twentieth century was simply a continuation of the principal debates and themes discussed of the past. In this century philosophy is no more the search for truth but a worldview which emphasizing reality as the sum total of each individual’s experiences through practical experimentation. Twentieth century philosophy centered on individual existence and advocates that truth and values are arrived at by each person’s experiences. Therefore, Individual goals become more important than societal goals. Before twentieth century people believed in something but in twentieth century people believe in everything.
                  Twentieth century’s revolution in language and epistemology, science, and ethics produce philosophical environment which later become postmodernism. Unnecessary debates were command when the complexity of language, nature and science clashed with relativism of individualism. The result of the combination of complexity and relativism is postmodernism of Twenty first century. The Idealists with their emphasis on the human experience began to re-emerge during the 20th century in the discussions of how we know what we know. The physical world may provide us with data, but people have their own interpretations of that data. No transcendent principles were possible, just individual experiences. However, in twentieth century scientific fields are growing a rate as never before and it causes people to ask how they know what they know. All the problems start when man who is finite being trying to understand the creation of infinite God without Him. Man will ever doubt himself without God. Observing the data without God and the experiences without God could never lead man to make absolute conclusion. Every statement they made is endangered for revision. However Christian worldview accepts the fact that we live in a world created by God, and He knows His world exhaustively. Within God's creation, we can know truthfully without knowing exhaustively. We can pursue meaning, truth, and value, with humility, in a way that honors the Creator of all meaning, truth, and value. The lack of God in life leads to believing in everything which is even more unreasonable and illogical then Christian Theism. 

Ref:  
Revolutions in Worldview: Understanding the Flow of Western Thought. Editor Andrew Hoffecker