The word "modern" is used in many different contexts in many different ways. For some people modernisation was synonymous with industrialisation. For others the modern world was the world of modern art and music. If we listen to the news we also hear people frequently talking about the need for developing societies to modernise, refering to things like an increasing respect for human rights, democracy and the privatisation of the economy.
There is another aspect of modernity, which is often overlooked but which is equally revolutionary. This concerns the foundations of knowledge. Before the emergence of a more modern sensibility knowledge wasn't much of a problem. Nobody bothered to write books about the foundations of knowledge. The assumption was that they were obvious. For medieval Europeans the great edifice of human learning rested upon the very solid foundation of revealed Truth.
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