Human (Scholar)

Author: (French) Baudrillard
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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 because of its closer proximity in time but, more importantly, because of the more "modern" ways of human existence and life philosophy. In terms of the latter, "modern society" is a social form that Europeans have developed over the past four to five hundred years, especially in the last hundred years, through the conquest of the world. It is a way of life that takes "rationalism," "human subjectivity," and "the world as an objective reality" as its fundamental life beliefs. This concept and way of life are unprecedented.