'Does the modern age...'
Posted by Mathew Abonyi Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:45:00 GMT
Does the modern age of the West feel a confusion, loss of self and definite knowledge, however, much it admits ambiguity, because the loss of Classical thought removed the foundations of the common man’s self-understadning and set him adrift the river of more advanced culture dependent on that Classical thought; or, is the practice of humanities itself become too much in excess of asingle person’s life that the maturity necessitated by Modernism (let alone Renaissance or Romantic thought) is all the most active yet common mind can encompass? To what extent are the ideologies of the post-Renaissance movement reinterpretations rather than expansions of human self-awareness? Is it not conceited to believed that man has essentially figured himself out? What is there left afterwards?
