I began to realise that a sea change had taken place in the academy at least with some. I have been called many things in my life, but trendy has not been one of them. We now live in postmodern times. By that I mean we live in a time when there is no one dominant philosophical paradigm or political ideology. Ignorance is the great enemy of humankind.
Education is the key to salvation.
There is a big picture and science provides it. If Kant is the patron saint of modernity, then Nietzsche is the patron saint of postmodernity with its skepticism about reason s access to truth. There are no facts, said Nietzsche, only interpretations. Reason does not rule. It never did.