{"id":62,"date":"2018-09-19T23:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T03:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/?p=62"},"modified":"2018-09-19T23:45:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T03:45:29","slug":"authority-and-modernity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/on-what-basis\/authority-and-modernity\/","title":{"rendered":"Authority and Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Modernity as a historical category was marked by the advent of the Age of Reason. With the Age of Reason came a rejection of tradition and the prioritization of individualism, freedom and egalitarianism. Once these overarching historical changes came, so too did modes of thoughts which brought modernity to individuals in society. The logic of modernity and modern modes of thought have their own inertia and thus modernity now does not need a singular source, it is a self-reinforcing cycle. Further, the inherently skeptical nature of modernity means that any singular source would be questioned and distrusted. The individualism, freedom, and egalitarianism of modernity also means that authority in modernity is less centralized and must be legitimized through the consent of the people. No more can a leader claim authority exclusively through religion and tradition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Modernity as a historical category was marked by the advent of the Age of Reason. With the Age of Reason came a rejection of tradition and the prioritization of individualism, freedom and egalitarianism. Once these overarching historical changes came, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/on-what-basis\/authority-and-modernity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-what-basis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}