can one say they are indifferent? — Warren
Some philosophers say we are still living in modernity, for some we are in post-modernity, some say we never modern. — Warren
Modernity is characterised by the idea of progress, trust in science, confidence in civilized values, the idea of destiny. — Wayfarer
'Modern' period - commenced with publication of Newton's Principia 1687.
'Post-modern' period - commenced with publication of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity 1915.
Modernity is characterised by the idea of progress, trust in science, confidence in civilized values, the idea of destiny.
Post-modernity is characterised by nihilism, distrust of meta-narratives, cultural relativism, rejection of universal values, a plurality of competing cultural and social constructs. — Wayfarer
It may have begun this way but after World War One it became drenched in pessimism and ideas of absurdity, regress and doom. — Tom Storm
I would also add skepticism about traditional culture and institutions. — T Clark
can one say they are indifferent? — Warren
With many positions on modernity and the individual, can one say they are indifferent? Some philosophers say we are still living in modernity, for some we are in post-modernity, some say we were never modern. — Warren
In 1922 New York City, flapper Millie Dillmount is determined to find work as a stenographer to a wealthy businessman and then marry him – a "thoroughly modern" goal.
It's always seemed to me that modernity is a rejection of the past as much as it is confidence in the future. — T Clark
Isn't that true of any generation ?
You call that music ? You call that dancing ? — Amity
I beg to differ, Jack. When was it ever not 'modern' to examine, critique & thereby develop how "our thinking is constructed". At best, p0m0 has always seemed to me nothing but a redundant, clown-show – a dada-like bit of rhetorical kitsch parodying a witches' brew of hellenic skepticism, apologetic fideism, berkleyan idealism, nietzschean perspectivism, russian nihilism, jamesian pluralism, etc – which, occasionally amusing in a tedious sorta way, is philosophically DOA. To be modern, it seems to me, is to always be engaged in a self-reflective subversive 'praxis' (i.e. "rebellion" "critique" "inquiry") that deconstructs the status quo by (re)constructing 'viable' alternatives, or exits (like e.g. hellenic cynics & epicureans; renaissance humanists; enlightenment deists & mechanists; russian anarchists & anglo-american fallibilists; post-war existentialists & absurdists; jazzists, surrealists & abstract expressionists; libertarian socialists & deep ecologists; etc).I am inclined to think that postmodernism was extremely useful as a basis for exploring the whole way our thinking is constructed. — Jack Cummins
When was it ever not 'modern' to examine, critique & thereby develop how "our thinking is constructed". At best, p0m0 has always seemed to me nothing but a redundant, clown-show – a dada-like bit of rhetorical kitsch parodying a witches' brew of hellenic skepticism, apologetic fideism, berkleyan idealism, nietzschean perspectivism, russian nihilism, jamesian pluralism, etc – which, occasionally amusing in a tedious sorta way, is philosophically DOA. — 180 Proof
No question but generally old farts. I am hearing this from people too young to be able to look back - in their twenties. — Tom Storm
Bruno Latour posits that we have never been modern. Although there are hybrids of nature and culture –non-human and human, object and subject– and quasi-objects, modernity prefers to purify nature and society as distinct. Latour argues that there have always been hybridizations and quasi-objects in history. — Warren
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