Person: Scholar

Author: Bodi
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Approximately five hundred years ago, with the end of the Middle Ages and the discovery of the New World, humanity began to gradually enter modern society. The "modern society" differs from the "ancient society" and "primitive society" not only in being more "recent" in time but also, more importantly, in the "newness" of human ways of life and life philosophies. In terms of the latter, "modern society" is a form of social organization that Europeans have developed over the past four to five hundred years, especially in the last hundred years, through their conquest of the world. It is a way of life that takes "rationalism," "human subjectivity," and "the world as an objective reality" as fundamental life beliefs. This concept and way of life are unprecedented.