POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Cephalus, Thrasymachus, Polemarchus
25 Apr 2013
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Authority of modernity- what all these other authorities had in common- even che guevera was a representative of modernity- It means undermining the underlying faith in modernity which is faith in progress- progress in understanding. Not assuming that modernity is wrong- suggesting that we raise the question of modernity. Instead of taking modernity for granted, we will try to gain some critical distance from modernity with the help of ancient thinkers. First study question: it is not modernity but rather post modernity that is the hot talk in universities. Discontent with modernity- nervous about modernity to have lost confidence in it. Post modernity: represents a loss of faith in a specific truth- the truth that modernity has taken a stand. That is why it can be understood as a loss in faith in modernity. There is a reason why they are called post modern and don t go any futher in creating a new title.
