As I was preparing for my talk tonight, I asked one of the philosophy professors at our seminary to name what he sees as the biggest problems in contemporary philosophy. Philosophy today is eclectic. If we refuse in principle to accept any universal explanation of life, no real school of thought or shared understanding of the world can develop. It's revealing that so few of our American university philosophy departments have any use for metaphysics . . . The idea behind deconstruction is taking apart the stories and language of our culture to discover their hidden prejudices.
Skepticism is cheap.
It's easy to take things apart. It's much harder to put them back together in a way that's morally compelling. We no longer really look for the true, the right and the lasting because we don't really believe they exist outside our own brain chemistry. We're agnostic about them in the same way we're agnostic about God. Now we're losing our faith in ourselves and putting our faith in our tools.