The Current Cultural Climate and Authority – A Postmodern View
The seeds of the aforementioned Enlightment period eventually gave birth to philosophies that questioned among other things the right of any one individual or nation to define such notions as truth and morality. Some recent philosophical systems aggressively attack the notion of authority. Postmodernists for instance teach that objective standards, morals, and truth cannot exist beyond cultures since they are culturally derived, and are doubtful that they can exist beyond any individually held truth.
