HIS202H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Age Of Enlightenment, Tecmar, United States Constitution
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Modernity: enlightenment era is the beginning of modernity, means being knowledgeable about relationships of people, demands self identification. To us, modernity means the latest technology and what is most convenience: about what humans need and what they think they want, requires constant forward movement, 1400-1650 authority was key. Utility means usefulness: used to identify what is defective and how to fix it, scientific approach to understanding society. Philosophers allowed us to think in sense of i . Modernity and progress is associated with science. Modernity may just simply be a way to turn the adaptation or the reshaping of past ideas to reshape present ideas and conditions. It"s that motion, that lack of static, that lack of permanence in modernity that sometimes allows us to change the ideas we don"t like. And it does involve compromise as well as innovation. Anybody who says modernity is a complete rejection of the past is probably a philosopher, pure and simple.
