Premodernity, Modernity, and Postmodernity
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ScribdTranslationsPREMODERNITY, MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY
LIZBETH KARINA IBARRA DIAGO
Professor:
EDGAR DE JESUS VELASQUEZ RIVERA
HISTORY AND POLITICS
SEMESTER I
UNIVERSITY OF CAUCA
FACULTY OF HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
PROGRAM: HISTORY
JULY 2022
PREMODERNITY
What is it? It was a philosophy that encompasses and blindly trusts religion as a source.
real to the explanation of being, of reality and truth. thus reasoning grew in
based on God and the abstractions of imagination.
What are its characteristics? It is mainly characterized or distinguished by attributing to it
All explanation to religion. Faith was what prevailed, for God was the reason for everything.
There were also very deep-rooted and marked customs regarding religion.
It was said that there was a profound religiosity, which was based on Judaism, Islam, and above all
in Christianity. Another element that explains the emergence of this philosophy was the need
what the "man" had for knowing, for understanding and for keeping in mind the explanation of death
And if there was something more than that, I mean, the afterlife, that's how religion offered a rest.
mental for providing the solution to this problem that tormented the minds of society, thus
Well, an idealized life after death is envisioned, an eternal life. Moreover, these thoughts
The theocentrists helped to suppress or replace fear with hope, and thanks to this, the
religion proposed a series of customs and rules that humans should follow if they wanted
to reach eternal life. It is then that skepticism did not arise among the people, doubt succeeded.
is covered.
How is it expressed in society? Socially, this movement implied a denial of everything.
that which was contrary to religion and to the explanation given by God, then
there was a confinement in that bubble. The church did everything possible to eliminate
any signal that sought to give explanations based on logic and reason, which caused
that the reasoning of the people of that time was limited by the fear of
unknown and to a greater extent due to the punishments they would have if they went against any
idea proposed by the church, as any attempt at progress would be judged for being
provoked by the devil and that a person had some relation to that was seen
as the most repugnant and the lowest, for that it is punished severely.
MODERNITY:
What is it? It is, in its essence, methods and processes that are oriented towards the procedures of
thought for the construction of knowledge, from the point of view of man as a subject
towards a world that has not yet been observed. Modernity is the awareness that the
man developed in relation to his environment. This causes the collapse of the scholastic.
based solely on reason and reality becomes a logical order for the
understanding.
What are its characteristics? As I wrote earlier, the world in relation to the
subject are the fundamental axes for understanding modern philosophy, as it was generated a
awakening. Likewise, according to Heidegger's analysis, a notable feature is the conversion of
world in image and man in subject, for being represented his existence is valued
the world as well as man begins to be considered as part of that
existence and a means of reference for such existence. Consequently, man gives himself the
place of being the center of the universe, but hand in hand with the admiration and conception of it,
Well, it is based on its reason and vision.
How is it expressed in society? Modern philosophy involved a social change in the
view of the world, in the detachment of reason from religion, as society
began to take more interest in natural and rational matters, such as the meaning of liberation from
the reason, what maintains the independence of thought, this is, the beginning of
individualism and the notion of subjectivity in society in the 'dialectic of the self'.
similarly, this modern philosophy influenced the political sphere, as it was initially built
thanks to social conflict, enmity, and disagreement, it was then that politics was the
response and the overcoming of fear, the same as what modern thought proposes.
POSTMODERNITY:
What is it? On one hand, it refers to the analysis of the crisis of thought and reason, which to
to seem is what the stage of modernity has left behind, or in other words the
consequences of this stage in itself. Moreover, it is the philosophy where nothing new is proposed, it is
rather a reconsideration and reconstruction of everything that thought was. thus the
postmodernity would be considered not as a new thought, but rather as an evolved one,
one lacking molds and criteria.
What are its characteristics? This philosophy has several outstanding traits, in the first
place is the fragmentation of thought and about the world of life, which is defended with
the syncretism of various types of reasoning. secondly, it is always in a constant
to seek a redirection, maintaining a hybrid stance regarding reality,
which on one hand opposes the idea that reality is independent of the human being
and on the other hand that truth or reality is a matter of perspective or context, or
briefly a subjectivity. Thirdly, it is based on the disconnection between the
various knowledges and scientific domains. Finally, it has post-structuralism, which is a
disorder "against rationality, from the margins, the fortuitous, the difference and the
"dispersion" said in other words is the rejection or impossibility of conceiving reason and
logic as the only means for knowledge and the acquisition of truth.
How is it expressed in society? This philosophical phenomenon has influenced and has been seen
reflected in today's society in aspects such as social, family, and personal thought
religious stage. Since this stage is in a time where the media of
communication prevails and is at its peak, it is much easier for them to spread their ideas,
however ironically for the same reasons there is no centrality of these
thoughts, turning everything into subjectivity. Likewise, due to postmodernity,
a supposed scheme and sense of values has been lost, as before there prevailed the
connection with God and a conservative society that linked the role of religion with faith
and human behavior, but postmodernism has made God not a
obligation, nor necessity but an option, thus there is a society where its values do not
they speak from the word of God but rather from themselves.