If you asked me to describe what I believe to be the key concepts or ways of thinking that are uniquely "modern," I would say something like this. A "modern" person tends to believe that: We are breaking from the past: we live in a time of light emerging from darkness of the past. We believe in the authority of our reason, of rationality based in empirical observation and our own experience over external authority. Thus we believe in subjectivity, that individual experience is the measure of truth. We believe in Liberalism, that authority's purpose is to protect liberty: individuals have rights that government exists (through a social contract) to protect. (Note that there is both political and economic liberalism: freedom from arbitrary authority and freedom for innovation and the creation of wealth and progress) We believe that natural, economic, social and political systems can be understood rationally and manipulated through the application of scientific reasoning and that this results in progress. This typically means a mechanistic worldview in which the world (and the natural world in particular) is a machine to be mastered We believe that human beings are fundamentally part of those systems and can be understood in the same rational way. Based from the information above, describe "modern thinking" in your own words

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If you asked me to describe what I believe to be the key concepts or ways of thinking that are uniquely "modern," I would say something like this. A "modern" person tends to believe that:

We are breaking from the past: we live in a time of light emerging from darkness of the past.
We believe in the authority of our reason, of rationality based in empirical observation and our own experience over external authority. Thus we believe in subjectivity, that individual experience is the measure of truth.
We believe in Liberalism, that authority's purpose is to protect liberty: individuals have rights that government exists (through a social contract) to protect. (Note that there is both political and economic liberalism: freedom from arbitrary authority and freedom for innovation and the creation of wealth and progress)
We believe that natural, economic, social and political systems can be understood rationally and manipulated through the application of scientific reasoning and that this results in progress. This typically means a mechanistic worldview in which the world (and the natural world in particular) is a machine to be mastered
We believe that human beings are fundamentally part of those systems and can be understood in the same rational way.

Based from the information above, describe "modern thinking" in your own words.

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