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<blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 3762330" data-attributes="member: 8394">One of the major readings of Descartes sees this entire line of reasoning as committing him to a kind of Platonism, which I imagine is what Samnell was referring to. In any case, Descartes was not a modernist. Your typical survey of modern philosophy will use him as a point of departure, and he is certainly modern, but not a modernist. You do begin to see modernism, and to an extent postmodernism, in Hume and Kant, but like I said before, there are few clear distinctions. As a general rule, you can find elements of any -ism in the thought of just about any age. The activity of selectively combining these elements to form broad stories about the 'spirit' of this or that age, which is what most people have in mind when they talk about 'history,' has probably caught as much flak as any from the postmodern critique of metanarratives (a critique which began, of course, before the 20th century or so-called postmodernism).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wayside, post: 3762330, member: 8394"] One of the major readings of Descartes sees this entire line of reasoning as committing him to a kind of Platonism, which I imagine is what Samnell was referring to. In any case, Descartes was not a modernist. Your typical survey of modern philosophy will use him as a point of departure, and he is certainly modern, but not [I]a[/I] modern[I]ist[/I]. You do begin to see modernism, and to an extent postmodernism, in Hume and Kant, but like I said before, there are few clear distinctions. As a general rule, you can find elements of any -ism in the thought of just about any age. The activity of selectively combining these elements to form broad stories about the 'spirit' of this or that age, which is what most people have in mind when they talk about 'history,' has probably caught as much flak as any from the postmodern critique of metanarratives (a critique which began, of course, before the 20th century or so-called postmodernism). [/QUOTE]

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