Thoughts on Toulmin's Cosmopolis
A few tweets on Toulmin's Cosmopolis. The hidden Agenda of Modernity:
Toulmin's Cosmopolis appeared same year as Wehaveneverbeen modern & is much radical since 1610 is the start of counter scientific revolution
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Mars 2015Twice Renaissance was delayed for Toulmin in 1610 after Henri IV death & then again in 1914 each time triggering quest for formal certainty
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Mars 2015Religious wars for Toulmin killed the humanistic scepticism & made the 17th cent not the start of reason, but of a reaction for certainty.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Mars 2015Toulmin contrasts Montaigne & Descartes, scientific revolution of the 16th with counter-revolution of the 17th, much as Counter-reformation.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Mars 2015Over optimistic, Toulmin saw in 1989 a new chance for Renaissance to stop being delayed once again because of ecology: that did NOT happen.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Mars 2015Toulmin's Cosmopolis shows that religious beliefs takes a type of absolute certainty, after 1610, that would have made no sense before.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Mars 2015Toulmin would have loved to learn 1610 isn't only Galileo's Starry Messenger & Ravaillac killing Henry 4, but also one date for anthropocene
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Mars 2015Toulmin links Westphalian nation states with counter scientific revolution & excess of certainty in belief: just what ecology for him kills.
— AIME (@AIMEproject) 29 Mars 2015External Resources:
Toulmin Stephen, Cosmopolis, 1990. URL : http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo3632653.html.