The autonomy ideal of modern Humanism rei-fies the typical human freedom to positivize underlying principles. The underlying idea of autonomy highlights the difference between modern Humanism and a Christian view of reality, for in the latter human subjec-tivity is appreciated as being correlated with universal and constant principles that can only assume a positive shape through human activities of positivization (form-giving). ![]() The contemporary " postmodern " idea that we create the world in which we live (either through thought, through language or through social practices) merely continues core elements of (early) modern philosophy. Kant influenced Husserl who, in turn, provided the point of departure for the ideas of Schutz, Berger and Luckmann – compare the joint work of Berger and Luckmann: Social construction of reality (1967). The irrationalistic side of nominalism emphasized the uniqueness and individuality of events – thus leading to the historicism of the 19 th century and the subsequent linguistic turn. The latter drew the radical (humanistic) conclusion that the laws of nature are present in human thought a priori (i.e. The dominant nominalistic trends of thought since Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant explored its rationalistic implications. In early modern philosophy the motive of logical creation emerged in reaction to the Greek-Medieval legacy of a realistic metaphysics.
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