Questions tagged [modernity]
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What were Michel Foucault's most important ideas?
Back when I was studying at university I met the occasional person who spoke about, and seemed to like, Foucault. For a while I had a passing interest in him, and even bought a reader, but found his work difficult to read (might need to revisit).
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What is the difference between Modernity and Enlightenment?
I know several Enlightenment-era philosophers such as Smith and Locke were responsible for diminishing what Arendt calls "the realm of the political" and then they proceeded to reduce humans to their economic roles which Arendt says is a problem of…
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Does a philosophy scholar in the modern world need to study ancient philosophy?
I am a philosophy enthusiast and I study philosophy on my own. I wanted to know whether a philosophy scholar in the modern world needs to study the ancient philosophical ideas, such as those by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc.? In some subjects such…
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Is there a relation between postmodernism and Asian philosophies?
As an Asian, I see that postmodernism and Taoism and Buddhism all share a similar idea: the truth cannot be grasped. Is there any relation between postmodernism and Asian philosophies? Can Laozi and Buddha be called as postmodernists? If yes, then…
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What do post modernists make of modern art and modernity?
What do post modernists make of modernism and modernity: how it has failed and succeeded?
I can only take the term "post modern" at face value, as meaning after modern.
The modern itself I can't really define: in both art and society I think of it…
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Postmodernity versus late (or liquid) modernity
Sociological characterizations of contemporary global society tend to divide into two broad forms, as follows:
Postmodernity, a period occurring after the end of modernity.
Late modernity, the most recent period within modernity.
However, the…
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Can someone define Strauss's "natural right" for me
I am doing some reading on Strauss and Strauss related things and having a hard time getting my head around what exactly is meant by "natural right", as well as "positive right" by contrast.
I checked out the SEP and there, as seems to be the case…
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What is the philosophical status of the enlightenment project?
"“Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-inflicted immaturity. … ‘Have courage to use your own reason!’—that is the motto of enlightenment.” -Kant
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"the difference between science and other things comes up when people pretend to have the…
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Is the Increase of Escapism in the Modern World Concerning?
What I have observed in the information era is the exponential increase of artificial escapism. By this I mean distracting yourself from reality with non-realistic Books, TV, Music, Movies, Videogames etc. Escapism would also include things like…
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What is or was modernity, the sociological phenomena?
What is or was modernity, the sociological phenomena?
I'm asking cos I want to know what aestrhetic modernism was, and would like to build up my understanding from the ground up.
What book length (or especially good shorter) studies talks about the…
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Did Modernism "overturn" or "evolve out of" Aristotle?
It is often said that modern philosophy begins with a break from Aristotle, as developed by Galileo, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, et al.
Though the modernists struggled to "start from scratch," it seems that the "overturning" of Aristotle was…
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How do Modernity and Progress relate to one another?
I understand that the Modern world is where we have science and technology, humans relying on empirical evidence rather than truths found in some scripture to derive laws for themself. I often hear that eating food a certain way, celebrating a…
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Is post-modernity liminal?
Liminality (from the Latin Limen, meaning threshold) is a technical term deployed in Anthropology describing the ambiguity and disorientation which occurs in rites of passage from an 'earlier' life to a 'later' life; (commnon ones being marriage and…
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How did the Sophists contribute to modern education?
I'm taking a course in Pedagogical Trends and we've studied about Sophists, Socartes and Plato.. So, I want to know how did the Sophists contribute to modern education?
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What was post modernism before Lyotard?
What was post modernism before Lyotard?
I'm leaning heavily toward the idea that modernism, in the literary arts, was kaput by world war 2. I believe that's Miller's thesis here (about to read):
I just find the opposing arguments both too quick and…
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