Salesian College of Higher Education (SCHE)\u2019s philosophy department conducted a philosophical seminar on \u201cPost Modernity: Origin and its Evolving Different Facets\u201d March 16. \nThe seminar began with the lighting of the lamp and the chanting of the Gayatri mantra by the 4th semester students. The Principal, Fr. Paul Punii, welcomed the participants, the staff and students and invited all for a fruitful discourse on Post Modernity.
\nIn his address, Rector of Good Shepherd Seminary, Thehekhu Rev. Fr. Chacko gave a brief outline of Postmodernism and set the participants in the postmodern perspective.
\nThe papers were presented by four students (Phamnitin Agatha, Jonathan Teron, Milton George, Loli Kapena) of the fourth semester under the guidance of Lecturer John Paul Vemo Soro. They highlighted Post modernity as a mood of our time, as a state of mind, a disposition and an attitude of constructive destruction, challenging universal and objective truths, as the celebration of pluralism and the subjective appreciation of the difference.
\nAccording to a press release, the seminar was conducted \u201cin the light of the present day society where everyone is confused about the truth, where they question the authority of elders and tradition, where everyone thinks that whatever each individual does is correct, where it does not make any difference between your way of worship and what your god is, and where feelings and emotions are preferred to reason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"