Two Theories of Modernity

Hastings Center Report 25 (2):24-33 (1995)
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Modernity is not that form of life toward which all cultures converge as they discard beliefs that held our forefathers back. Rather, it is a movement from one constellation of background understandings to another, which repositions the self in relation to others and the good.

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