Thread by @EveKeneinan

The denial of Platonism in the broadest sense delivers us over to a metaphysics of construction, explicit in the moderns, but with the consequence that construction becomes deconstruction, since no standard or template is given by which construction must or should be guided.

The original Modernist hope or more accurately dream (Descartes) was that REASON could serve as the standard for CONSTRUTION—this is clearest in Kant—but reason or logos is "safe" only when held to a transcendent standard, the essences or natures of beings, the Platonic εἴδη.

Reason as λόγος, saying, most say something, and the standard by which it may be determined whether the λόγος is true or false, is not itself λόγος. This is found in not in saying, but seeing, in νόησις. But what is SEEN are the LOOKS of beings, viz. the εἴδη.

To deny the possibility of seeing the εἴδη and thus holding speech to account in what it says, is to embrace SOPHISTRY, speech which does not and cannot have basis in what is, and is indifferent to truth and falsehood. Sophistry, or what is the same, Postmodernism.

When there is no basis for reckoning a λόγος true or false other than λόγος itself (that is true which is SAID to be true), the result is clear: rather than looking to see whether a λόγος is true or not, one focuses on stubbornly saying what one wants/wills to be true is true.

We can see one consequence of this in the "postmodern politics" represented by Critical Race Theory: -

CRT says things that are not true, but it itself rejects all reference to truth, but orients itself toward saying what it takes to be in the political interest of black people.

Every move made is to advance "the narrative" by means of raw power. All concern about whether the narrative is TRUE is lacking.

Indeed, the narrative contains the narrative element that "truth" belongs only to white people, that judging a λόγος by its truth is White Supremacy.

One may wonder whether asking — or more accurately, demanding — of black people that they cut themselves off from truth (as a thing of White Supremacy) is really to their good.

I suggest it isn't.

You couldn't do more harm if you were trying to.