TOWARD INVESTIGATING THE «POST-MODERN MIND»: A WORKING PAPER.

This article report on an attempt to investigate, by questionnaires given to college and high-school students, the hypothesis that the emergence of a "post-modern mind," is being witnessed characterized by world-outlook, different from those held in previous stages of Western society and more particularly. The article intends to investigate whether the religious attitudes suggested as characteristic of the "post-modern mind" do in fact exist. According to a hypothesis, the development of Western society has gone through various stages and that these are associated with distinctive "minds". These "minds" depend, basically, on differing ways of approaching or defining reality. They then pattern the institutional and cultural forms of a given stage of development. The hypothesis also holds, that people in mid-twentieth century are witnessing a change similar in import to the change around 1650, namely, the emergence of a new "mind", radically different in approach from the "modern mind" and already viewing the "obvious" notion of reality previously held as something antiquated and alien.