Yesterday we looked at the parallels between George Kelly's philosophy and William James' Pragmatism. Pre-Postmodernism and Process Epistemology Part I Why pre-Postmodernism?
      I said, in an earlier post, that I would explain why I call Postmodernism Pre-Postmodernism. It is simple. We can't be postmodernists because we are still in the "modern" era, also known as the Cartesian era. Philosophers who are called "postmodernists" are those who understand why (but not always how) we must break away from the dualistic Eith/Or fallacies that plague our critical thinking. Besides Pragmatism, I have already mentioned Existentialism as also being a precursor to postmodernism which, logically, would be Pre-Postmodernism.
      In fact, the whole dichotomy of modernism vs. postmodernism is a totally Cartesian, pre-postmodern concept. In the future, when philosophers become truly postmodernist, they won't call themselves that, because the whole dichotomy of "modern v. postmodern" is a modern, Cartesian concept, not a postmodern concept.
      I also mentioned that, in my personal construct of philosophy, American Pragmatists and European Existentialists are all saying the same things using different philosophic vocabularies. The Existentialists, for instance, may talk about a person's choice of personal constructs as being either "authentic" or "inauthentic", but they would never describe a choice as "having cash value" (William James' term). That is so American.
      This next series of rants will take us from Existentialism/Pragmatism/Constructive Alternativism to what is usually called Postmodernism (to their credit, many Postmodernists do not like to be called that), and then into the most recent developments in philosophy: Process philosophy and process epistemology. To understand that though, we have to explore the precursor to Existentialism, which is Phenomenology.
      For those readers who were skeptical of Kelly's and James' constructs of reality (in yesterday's post) as being both ideal and material at the same time, I might add that the science of quantum mechanics backs them up.
Monday: From Phenominology to Existentialism
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