Modernity

Cameron Gordon

Chapter Chapter 14 in Many Possible Worlds, 2023, pp 387-411 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Roman statesman Cassiodorus is credited with the first use of the term “modern” (“modernus”) in the fifth century C.E. to contrast the Roman Empire’sRoman Empire Christian era with its preceding pagan history. The term then fell into disuse until the seventeenth century when members of the French Academy were debating about whether contemporary cultureCulture, defined by French EnlightenmentEnlightenment thinkers as marked by the use of reason, logic, and scienceScience to perfect the human individual through knowledge and its systematic application to the natural and human social world, was superior to classical cultureCulture, which contained some of the same values without the scientific apparatus.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-9281-0_14

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