Ethical Values In Postmodern Scenario

Postmodernism is the extension on and continuation of modernism. Modernism is not dead but living through the spirit of post modernism. But, somehow we can identify or classify post-modernism from modernism on some grounds like “Modern having some tradition of past and reality lies under the surface and all types of ethical, moral truth and values are final and fix which cannot be challenged” but in post-modernism. “No reality lies under the surface; post-modernism is / was against totality of life, we don’t take absolute truth values and truths are time specific and contextual”. Spirit of post-modernism and this spirit of adding something new paves the way for Avant-gardism which firstly came in painting and than in literature headed by Ferdinand Mongin De Saussure, Jacques Derrida who deconstructed the centre of all existing theories, Jacques Lacan etc. It was intellectual revolution and it is another name of post-modernism. This was the age of psycho-analytical Theory of Sigmund Freud and Jung and ultimately, this modernity paves the way for post-modernism. When Charles Darwin came with his theory of Evolution, all theories, all principal, become evolutionary. Everything was being studies with the back ground of evolution and thus all realities became evolutionary. When Einstein came with his theory of relativity, than everything became relative, all theories and all principal of study and perception became relative.

Jurgan Hebermas rejected the idea of Final, fix, everlasting, universal reality or truth based on the belief in Meta-narrative or grand narrative and he projected the idea of temporal truth, individual truth, specific cultural truth and contextual truth and this truth is also provisional, not universal. The ischolar_mains of literary modernism must be traced to the ideas of these philosophers, Darwin, Marx and Freud: the human being popularly conceived as a fallen angel, became after The Origin of the Species (1859) a cultured ape. The Interpretation of Dreams (1990). The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) and other really know more than the ostensible reasons for such an action.

To conclude, postmodernism can be understood as a conceptual strategy or a set of strategies to cope with present day realities and human condition. The term then assumes a broad category which tries to interpret, analyze or understand the often conflictual multi-dimensions of life, experience, knowledge.