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Whitehead reversed the common cartoon of medieval versus modern: the moderns were the fideists and the medievals the partisans of “unbridled rationalism” (p. 9).

September 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009

"When I examine the famous writings of the ancients – not all of them, but most – and compare their talents with the knowledge of the moderns, I judge the ancients eloquent, and call the moderns dumb," he proclaimed in the opening line of his coming-of-age essay and first known work, On the Same and the Different.

'The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization' 2009

Abbé Jean Terrasson in a posthumous work, Philoso - phy Applicable to All Subjects (1754), affirmed that the superiority of the moderns is a necessary and natural effect of the very constitution of the human spirit.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968

At first the only true classics for the moderns were the ancients.

What Is a Classic 1909

Another phase of Mondeville's work that is sympathetic to the moderns is his discussion of the irregular practice of medicine and surgery as it existed in his time.

Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903

This very superficial performance of Temple's was a contribution to the futile controversy over the relative merits of the ancients and moderns, which is now only of interest as having given occasion to Bentley to display his great scholarship in his "Dissertation on the Epistles of Phalaris," (1698), and to Swift to show his powers of irony in "The Battle of the Books" (1704).

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

At first the only true classics for the moderns were the ancients.

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

While the moderns were the first to recover, the senior artists who had never touched the price crest have recovered too, so overall prices for moderns are down 15 to 20 per cent, and the senior artists are lower by 20 per cent.

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Without discovering the law of progress, as has too often been alleged, he arrived at the conclusion that antiquity being the youth of the world, the moderns are the adults, which only meant that it would be at our school that the ancients would learn were they to return to earth and that we ought not to believe blindly in the ancients; and this was an insurrection against the principle of authority and against the idolatry of

Initiation into Philosophy ��mile Faguet 1881

We 'moderns' reject any sort of authority in learning, even if we must rely upon them when we read our textbooks to memorize our 'facts,' sticking to the illusion that we are self-taught and that everything that we have acquired in our study is the product of 'pure reason.'

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