So I'm asking you to do that for us here too.

Yeah.

Thanks, Carrie.

That's a, that's a big, big set of questions there.

Um, let me start by, first of all, saying I'm, I'm suspicious of the word post-modernity in general.

I'm, I'm never really sure what it means or what it applies to.

Um, I, I-- So when we say that, uh, there's a sense in which Kant is a proto-post-modernist, um, I, I, I just want to push back and say I, I think the only way in which I think the word post-modernity means anything salient is to say that it is an attempt to reckon with the consequences of modernity.

So please remind us and the listeners of the laws of thermodynamics and explain how pursuing these avoids the pitfalls of Meillassoux and Badiou's attempts to apply mathematical principles to ethics.

So I'm asking you to do that for us here too.

Yeah.

Thanks, Carrie.

That's a, that's a big, big set of questions there.

Um, let me start by first of all saying I'm, I'm suspicious of the word post-modernity in general.

I'm, I'm never really sure what it means or what it applies to.

Um, I, I...

So please remind us and the listeners of the laws of thermodynamics and explain how pursuing these avoids the pitfalls of Meillassoux and Badiou's attempts to apply mathematical principles to ethics.

So I'm asking you to do that for us here, too.

Yeah, thanks, Kerry.

That's a big, big set of questions there.

Let me start by, first of all, saying I'm suspicious of the word postmodernity in general.

I'm never really sure what it means or what it applies to.

So when we say that there's a sense in which Kant is a proto-postmodernist, I just want to push back and say I think the only way in which I think the word postmodernity means anything salient is to say that it is an attempt to reckon with the consequences of modernity.

That's really the only thing that seems to unify the broad swath of thinkers that are considered postmodernists.

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