Hi Rufus - I’m tempted to create a kind of logic systemigram showing how concepts have emerged in different historical contexts from predecessors. I’m not sure whether to start from modernity and work backwards, or from the ‘axial age’ (or at least the anthropological precursors of history) and trace emergent concepts.
What would you see as the concepts that constitute ‘modernity’?
How would the following list grab you for starters?
1. Rationalism and Empiricism
2. Individualism
3. Secularism
4. Belief in Progress
5. Universal Rights and Equality
6. Democratic or Representative Governance
7. Technological and Scientific Advancement?