According to Wikipedia, the main characteristics of modernity are:
a questioning or rejection of tradition; the prioritization of individualism, freedom and formal equality; faith in inevitable social, scientific and technological progress and human perfectibility; rationalization and professionalization; a movement from feudalism (or agrarianism) toward capitalism and the market economy; industrialization, urbanization and secularization; the development of the nation-state and its constituent institutions (e.g. representative democracy, public education, modern bureaucracy)...
AFAIK, the figures responsible for the emergence of modern science (via the scientific revolution) like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, etc are said to have relied on existing knowledge from the pre-modern era. So what role did science play in the emergence of the above traits? Scientific and technological progress seems obvious, but what about things like political and economic aspects?
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