Modernity, Change and New Attitude

Modernity is above all an attitude which involves a feeling of change, imposition of a new right about historical and philosophical traditional values. It aims to transform the way of life, society, the context of new historical conditions change material nature: the Industrial Revolution and capitalism are its engine, with economic, social and political triumph leading to confront or overcome it ancient or old.

Starts, as feeling and attitude, with the Renaissance of the fifteenth century, but emerges as a fact today, as modern age with the advent of industrial society. It is the new versus the old.

In fact, the modern age as a time landing is located at the beginning of the modern age, for there in the early nineteenth century, starting from the Middle Ages.

Semantically "modernity" is modern attribute, an attribute, the dictionary tells us in the first sense that "modern" as "Of or pertaining to the time of the speaker or recent times." (1) The actual, then, almost as if we were to say what it really, really, and despite the redundancy.

In order to be more blunt, see derivative "modernism": "Especially in art and literature, love of modern things with contempt of the old." That contempt is what leads to the antañones rant, sometimes broached a "Modernízate".

So we sought the point of philosophical reason which deprives the Renaissance: it is contempt of the positions of the ancients, but their review and, sometimes, to his unmasking. Go without the bad faith of the contempt that the "unmasking "because modern philosophers were trained in the old schools.

The issue of new air times (changing social structures, economic systems are consolidated, the impact of new technologies, printing at first) requires a new mindset as well, focusing primarily on the review of the Aristotelian and Platonic views as guidelines of life, knowledge and culture. Such an environment fully justified the work of Rene Descartes and his methodical doubt (looking for the truth with evidence: Philosophia Prima Meditationes) and Francis Bacon in his fight to the idols of prejudice (Novum Organon Scientiarum). The new environment revolutionary modernist questioning of old and its old chains, led to these two philosophers to sow doubt as the initial method of scientific exploration and philosophical thought, and also led to mental emancipation lay the foundations of the old scheme of human thought in all its predetermination cosmogonic, cosmological, scientific and philosophical.

Parejo process of overcoming the pre-industrial society walked this attitude of the times, typical of the bold men with their new technology of the industrial era, quasi-gods of the invention.

Logically, we must take into account these considerations on critical attitudes toward the tyranny of the old, the main contribution of those who are now considered not only the "father of science" but of "modern physics" and "modern astronomy "Galileo Galilei. He, along with Copernicus (who fed them with math heliocentrism), practically initiated the scientific revolution, and it should be clear that such" romps "in human attitudes and customs of the time have to affect the spectrum philosophical thinking, because science is systematized discourse of the real sector of the real philosophical subject.

For his work, Galileo is confronted with the power guards the old days, that is, Aristotle and the Roman Catholic Church, and it illustrates symbolically the modern conflict between freedom of thought and authority of man, rigid in the midst of revolutionary change both . In fact, theory and practice together as, say, philosophy and science, respectively, the experimental work of Galileo is presumed complementary writings of Francis Bacon idealizing about the scientific method.

Cosmologically rearranges the world, then, the knowledge began to crack, to modernize, corresponding to new forms of industrial and capitalist life being born then sit back and wait as much doctrine as old authority on the floor rodasen under a more pure human reason and thinking. The world was no longer the center, and propagate the old Church, which continues even today old, deep in the catacombs of the premodenidad Aristotle. Hence the reason for its collapse and, possibly, its decomposition as to final assembly into the society of men transmodern tempting to be gods.

As a final hack to fan the flame incendiary modernist and the trail of the changes, the "discovery" of America and the voyages of the "discoverers" around the world brought to the table the suspicions of the roundness of the Earth and the fallacy of ancient powers and doctrines.

The "new world" are not the territories, new planets and life forms found, but the modern attitude of thinking men. Modernity is the vita nuova.