The signature of modernity, that which cuts across all areas of inquiry, is the rejection of teleology. One might contend that to be ‘modern’ is precisely to be ‘ateleological’. Thus in modernity the teleological aspects of any science—whether physics and biology or politics and ethics—are discarded. And any science which is necessarily teleological throughout its entire structure—such as metaphysics—is discarded entirely.
The signature of modernity
The signature of modernity
The signature of modernity
The signature of modernity, that which cuts across all areas of inquiry, is the rejection of teleology. One might contend that to be ‘modern’ is precisely to be ‘ateleological’. Thus in modernity the teleological aspects of any science—whether physics and biology or politics and ethics—are discarded. And any science which is necessarily teleological throughout its entire structure—such as metaphysics—is discarded entirely.