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Modernity ignores the social, linguistic, and political context of thought, and the way interest shapes the mind; postmodernity foregrounds all this.
Perhaps, but....
Descartes said that his travels demonstrates that "all those who hold notions strongly contrary to our own are not for that reason barbarians or savages, and many of them are just as reasonable as we; and . . . the identical man, with the identical mind, nurtured from his childhood among French or Germans becomes different from what he would be had he always lived among Chinese or Cannibals."
Locke noted that few ideas win approval for their evidential power: "Truths gaine admittance to our thoughts as the philosopher did to the Tyrant by their handsome dresse and pleaseing aspect, they enter us by composition, and are entertained as they suite our affections, and as they demeane themselves towards our imperious passions, when an opinion hat wrought its self into our approbations and is gott under the protection of our likeing tis not all the assults of argument, and the battery of dispute shall dislodge it? Myn life upon trust and their knowledg is noething but opinion moulded up betweene custom and Interest, the two great Luminarys of the world, the only lights they walke by."
posted by Peter J. Leithart on Friday, August 11, 2006 at 06:24 PM
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