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Title : Modernity and Realism


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We are all people living in a modern world
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Definitions:
Modernity- !entral to "#ropean philosophes$ definition of "nlig%tenment&-'eter (amil
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Realism- W%at is
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Defenitions of "nlig%tenment:
1 Reason - organi/ation of 0nowledge 1ro#g%t a1o#t 1y rationali/ation
2 Empiricism - 2nowledge is o1tained t%ro#g% t%e senses
3 Science - "3perimental met%od as 0ey to e3pansion of 0nowledge
) Universalism - Reason and s!ien!e is appli!a1le to all
+ Progress -improvement
, Individualism- everything starts from something smaller
4 Toleration - t%e notion t%at all %#man 1eings are essentially t%e same
5 Uniformity of human nature - %#man nat#re is #niform to all
10. Secularism - 6eed to 1rea0away from tradition
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7ren!% revol#tion
8erman revol#tion
9ritis% empri!ism
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7ren!% Revol#tion
7e#dalism vs Rising 1o#rgeoisie: angry peasants for 'rogress
Monar!%y*national !onvention vs national assem1ly
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8erman Revol#tion
Wor0ers vs government
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9ritis% "mpiri!ism
=o%n >o!0e: 8eorge 9er0eley: and David (#me were t%e primary e3ponents of
empiri!ism
2nowledge revolves aro#nd e3perien!e
relations of ideas and matters of fact
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?onne!ting t%e dots
Modernity is "nlig%tenment in Reality or e3perien!e
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In what way is the realist short story a product of this kind of thinking?
@ realist s%ort story stems o#t from t%e e3perien!es of people: regardless w%et%er good or
1ad: to immortali/e t%eir e3perien!es of enlig%tenment
?redits:
(amilton: ' T%e "nlig%tenment and t%e 9irt% of t%e So!ial S!ien!es& S (all and 9 8i
e1en: eds ormations of !odernity ?am1ridge: 'olity 'ress: 1;;2: 21-2
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