Modernity
In his article “Are We Really So Modern,” The Adam Kirsch raises the question, “what is modernity and when does one obtain such a thing?” He makes an interesting point that modernity has the same meaning to us today that it did for people back in the 1500’s. Kirsch uses historical phenomena like the discovery of the earth revolving around the sun instead of the sun revolving around the earth as examples. He analyzes the response to these new discoveries and ways of thinking and he finds a pattern that will be discussed later. It is found in this reading that modernity isn’t something that is obtained only by the people that occupy the earth today. According to Adam Kirsch The sense modernity is a concept that hides in our subconscious until something new has come along it is lost or until one looks at the past and realizes everything from the present isn’t there in the past.
The definition of Modern is of or relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past. The definition of Modernity is the quality or …show more content…
“Aristotelian science had taught that the fundamental units of being were substances, in which qualities or ‘accidents’ were lodged: thus, a cow is a substance, the redness of the cow an accident. Descartes abolished this distinction, holding, instead, that everything physical that exists is simply matter in space.” “Descartes believed that he could infallibly deduce another crucial principle: the existence of a good God, who guarantees the truth of my perceptions and so underwrites the existence of the world” (Kirsch 2016). At this point in time, Descartes believes that he is more modern than those he has succeeded. However, it can be predicted that when someone after him advances his research and or deems it something unworthy of acknowledgement, as did Gottlieb, due to more recent findings, Descartes would have the same kinds of emotions as John Donne and
In his article “Are We Really So Modern,” The Adam Kirsch raises the question, “what is modernity and when does one obtain such a thing?” He makes an interesting point that modernity has the same meaning to us today that it did for people back in the 1500’s. Kirsch uses historical phenomena like the discovery of the earth revolving around the sun instead of the sun revolving around the earth as examples. He analyzes the response to these new discoveries and ways of thinking and he finds a pattern that will be discussed later. It is found in this reading that modernity isn’t something that is obtained only by the people that occupy the earth today. According to Adam Kirsch The sense modernity is a concept that hides in our subconscious until something new has come along it is lost or until one looks at the past and realizes everything from the present isn’t there in the past.
The definition of Modern is of or relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past. The definition of Modernity is the quality or …show more content…
“Aristotelian science had taught that the fundamental units of being were substances, in which qualities or ‘accidents’ were lodged: thus, a cow is a substance, the redness of the cow an accident. Descartes abolished this distinction, holding, instead, that everything physical that exists is simply matter in space.” “Descartes believed that he could infallibly deduce another crucial principle: the existence of a good God, who guarantees the truth of my perceptions and so underwrites the existence of the world” (Kirsch 2016). At this point in time, Descartes believes that he is more modern than those he has succeeded. However, it can be predicted that when someone after him advances his research and or deems it something unworthy of acknowledgement, as did Gottlieb, due to more recent findings, Descartes would have the same kinds of emotions as John Donne and