Modernity and Plato: Two Paradigms of Rationality

by Arbogast Schmitt

Sets itself the Herculean task of comparing and reconciling the modern and Platonic concepts of rationality.

Modernity's break with the Middle Ages is distinguished by a comprehensive turn to a world of individual, empirical experience, a turn that was a repudiation of Plato's idea that there is a reality of rationality and intellect. Yet already in the Renaissance it was no longer thought necessary to seriously confront the old concept of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134972
• ISBN13: 9781571134974
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 634 Pages
• Weight: 3.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.3" x 6.1"