“Whereas classical scholarship sought the true, the beautiful, and the good, the postmodernist academy seeks “what works.” – Veith, G. E., Jr. (1994b). Postmodern Times: A Christian Guide to Contemporary Thought and Culture. Crossway, p. 58.

When scholarship still held to Christian values regarding the value of truth, beauty, and the good, they sought after these things in life, work, and their studies. As Christian values faded from the halls of academia, first modernism sought to replace Christian truth with scientific truth. Then post-modernism sought to throw out the concept of truth all together. Without truth and a transcendent point of reference, they also lost any recognition of beauty or good. The postmodernist falls to seeking what “works”, at least for the time and situation. The true and the good are what gets them what they want, but beauty is lost from this equation.