EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: New Latin, Origins Game Fair, Identity Evropa
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Lecture - introduction of modernity and why it happened in europe and its significance. Why do we care about modernity and its foundations in europe. To what do we contrast the modern . 1580"s of or pertaining to present or recent times . Based on latin modo in this fashion (mode in french means fashion; or moda. The very notion of modern is itself a modern concept; i. e. , before ca. 1500 the idea of the uniqueness of now would have been unthinkable. in spanish) That is, modernity defined the very notion of modernity, a break with the past, an emphasis on the present as opposed to the past. Trismegistus, what a great miracle is man, asclepius confirms this opinion. Francis bacon, novum organum scientarium (new tool of the sciences), 1620. Developed the beginnings of the scientific method. Part 1: instauratio magna (the great renovation) (many will pass through and knowledge will be increased) La querelle des anciens et des moderns.
