"Modernity" is a term of art that refers to the physical conditions and philosophical preoccupations of the modern world (ca. 1600 CE Europe, and after). [0] Th

"Modernity" is a term of art that refers to the physical conditions and philosophical preoccupations of the modern world (ca. 1600 CE Europe, and after). [0] Through this lens, it's kind of a circular question: of course we are moderns because we're engaged with the philosophical preoccupations of the modern period (humanistic and scientific philosophy rather than Christian theology). When you look at the philosophical questions of medieval Europe, they just have fundamentally different premises and methods; Thomas Aquinas just has very different concerns and methods than Francis Bacon. I'd think it was just a dud headline, were it not for the closing line. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernity