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modern yes, contemporary no...

• gizajob 2y ago
  What if I cited them last week?
  • keiferski 2y ago
    In the philosophy world, Modern Western Philosophy typically means circa 1500-1600-1700 or so and a class in the subject will include Hume, Locke, Descartes, etc. Here’s a typical syllabus from Rutgers: https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/syllabus-repository-2/spring-2020-syllabi/872-205-01-intro-to-modern-phil-r-fry-spring-2020/file https://philosophy.rutgers.edu/syllabus-repository-2/spring-... Contemporary doesn’t really mean anything other than “somewhat recently”; there is no established set of thinkers considered contemporary ones.
    • robwwilliams 2y ago
      “Contemporary” as in Belonging to the same period of time. "a fact documented by two contemporary sources." Of about the same age. Current; modern. "contemporary trends in design."
      • keiferski 2y ago
        Yes, I know what the word means in the standard sense. The point was that it doesn’t have a separate meaning in philosophy the way modern philosophy does. Or in art, where modern art doesn’t mean “art of today” but instead “art of roughly 1880-1960.”
      • marginalia_nu 2y ago
        In philosophy there's a well defined capital-M modernity, that breaks away from scholastic philosophy following the antique Aristotelian tradition, and attempts to re-invent philosophy starting in the late medieval period. Modern philosophers are thus found from the renaissance up until the period that is referred by non-philosophers as modernity. This is because they themselves used the term modern.