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Peter Takov
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2025.05.001
Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda, Cameroon
This paper is an attempt to explore the root of the modern paradox across multiple registers in order to uncover a persuasive pattern of contradiction that runs through the very fabric of contemporary existence. We discover that the very logic meant to emancipate the human subject—scientific mastery, bureaucratic order, economic growth, and many others, often recoil upon the subject, generating conditions of fragmentation, depersonalization, and spiritual aridity. Far from rejecting modernity wholesale, our task is a diagnostic one—to enter into the deep fabric of modernity and to decode its operating metaphors and interrogate what holds up the “scaffolding of collective life”. This is in a bid to find the rootedness of genuine human flourishing. Part of the answer, from our analysis, lies in a critical re-thinking within modernity without being subsumed by it.
modernity, fragmentation, individualism, manipulation, capitalism, domination
Peter Takov. (2025). The Modern Paradox. Philosophy Study, Sept.-Oct. 2025, Vol. 15, No. 5, 187-194.
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