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“Contemporary” as in Belonging to the same period of time. "a fact documented by two contemporary sources." Of about the same age. Current; modern. "contempor
by 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 agoYes, 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 agoIn 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.