ABSTRACT
This chapter considers some of the contemporary challenges to the traditional ways of thinking about ethics. These challenges flow from questioning some of the basic premises of the whole enterprise. People hope that sharpening the nature of that clash will help us understand how postmodern thinking challenges standard ethical systems. If modernism leads to a deadening sense of unitization, loss of individuality, consumerism, and standardization, then postmodernists reject such a model of society and culture. Not only has the term postmodernism become fashionable, but so have many other terms following the construction of the prefix post-plus some other term. Many of the most famous proponents of the postmodern in the fields of philosophy, sociology, and culture in general have been European, particularly French. As with the postmodernists, people must remember there are many different kinds of feminists, and that representatives of the different branches would not all agree on the points people are making here.
