ABSTRACT
A survey of a few key tenets espoused by a majority of postmodern scholars provides an insight into the nature of their understanding of the world. First of all, postmodernism claims that there are no foundations for ethical principles or knowledge claims and that morality and knowledge are grounded only in particular circumstances of history and culture. This means that, for all human endeavors (including religion and science), there can be no transcendental or transcultural truths. Language and culture constrain behavior and thought, making the world appear differently to people in different times and places. However cogent these appearances, postmodernists warn, they must not be mistaken for universal truths, since such universals do not exist.
