Ignorant Modernity

Are we moderns more ignorant than the ancients? In some respects, yes; in others, no. This essay on ignorant modernity addresses precisely that paradox: the transformation of the domains of ignorance and of the very concept of ignorance itself—one that is not inherently negative, nor reducible to a mere lack of education. Much of contemporary sociology portrays our age as a historical moment in which reason encounters its own limits, that is, its ignorance. We are immersed in a renewed return to ancient Socratic wisdom, in which questioning reality becomes the foundation not only of science, but of social life itself. This is what renders our modernity, in part, an ignorant modernity: a society that struggles to distinguish truth from falsehood; yet—paradoxically and not without consequence—it is also a freer and more tolerant society, precisely because no one can credibly claim possession of absolute truth.

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