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Enlightment,Ego,Rationality: Approaches to Thinking into the Problem of Modernity

Wang Hu-xue

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The problem of modernity to which lots of thinkers of different pay attention from their own perspectives is the theoretical epitome and dominant discourse,however,many different conclusions accrue.Therefore,it is necessary to rethink the premise of the problem of modernity.The reflection on the methodology of modernity show that we should go beyond the narrow perspectivism towards horizon co-presence;correlatively,the reflection on the multi-fields shows that the fields co-presence of research for the problem of modernity; the purpose of the reflection on modernity as the topic of philosophy is to open the approaches to the problem of modernity: enlightment as the character,ego as the soul and rationality as the life of modernity which all sketch and describe the new image of the problem of modernity.

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The problem of modernity to which lots of thinkers of different pay attention from their own perspectives is the theoretical epitome and dominant discourse,however,many different conclusions accrue.Therefore,it is necessary to rethink the premise of the problem of modernity.The reflection on the methodology of modernity show that we should go beyond the narrow perspectivism towards horizon co-presence;correlatively,the reflection on the multi-fields shows that the fields co-presence of research for the problem of modernity; the purpose of the reflection on modernity as the topic of philosophy is to open the approaches to the problem of modernity: enlightment as the character,ego as the soul and rationality as the life of modernity which all sketch and describe the new image of the problem of modernity.

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The problem of modernity to which lots of thinkers of different pay attention from their own perspectives is the theoretical epitome and dominant discourse,however,many different conclusions accrue.Therefore,it is necessary to rethink the premise of the problem of modernity.The reflection on the methodology of modernity show that we should go beyond the narrow perspectivism towards horizon co-presence;correlatively,the reflection on the multi-fields shows that the fields co-presence of research for the problem of modernity; the purpose of the reflection on modernity as the topic of philosophy is to open the approaches to the problem of modernity: enlightment as the character,ego as the soul and rationality as the life of modernity which all sketch and describe the new image of the problem of modernity.

Key concepts: Modernity, Epitome, Rationality, Premise, Perspectivism, Id, ego and super-ego, Epistemology, Sociology

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