Date: Saturday, February 27, 2016
Hours: 1:30 p.m.
Site: Ruggles Hall - Newberry Library - 60 West Walton Street - Chicago, IL
Organized by: Newberry Library
In collaboration with: https://www.newberry.org/renaissance-center-program-registration
Philosophers typically attribute the foundation of modern thought to René Descartes, who in his Discours de la méthode (1637) extensively deploys metaphors of "founding" for his theory of how the edifice of knowledge is regrounded on the clear and distinct certainty of the cogito: "I think, therefore I am." Cultural historians sometimes locate a remoter starting point for modernity in Luther and in the Protestant Reformation. There, too, modernity is about establishing the individual self and its own free power of reflection, in the mirror of conscience, as the basis of a life lived in relation to the absolutes of divine grace and Scriptural revelation.
Source: http://www.iicchicago.esteri.it/
