What is the biggest difference between older philosophies and more modern philosophies?

Question

and what hasn't really changed??

What are some examples??

Answer 1

years of accumulated knowledge and generations of revision of thought . some people are ignorant uneducated and too stubborn to loose their antiquated ideas when out weighed by good sense .

Answer 2

Philosophies that date from before the birth of modern democracy were based on the asumption that a king would always be there to impose a harsh form of order on the "lesser people."

More modern philosophies have to grapple with difficult concepts such as self determination, personal responsibility, individual needs versus social needs. These problems are a lot harder to deal with.

Answer 3

Over time, the shadow of myth has receded in the light of truth and knowledge based on scientifically reproducible discovery. I believe many of the functions of the natural material world that were formally believed by primitive people to demonstrate the activities of a masculine, obvious, discovered god are now understood as being based on predictable physical laws and properties of the known universe. Maybe earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, lightening, thunder, tornados, hurricanes, floods, plagues, movements of sun, moon, planets and stars in the heavens and other awesome displays of power that previously had been attributed to the activity of a masculine, obvious, discovered good one in Heaven, are now increasingly being explained by means of scientifically reproducible discovery as natural phenomenon. Maybe what once had seemed to be chaotic and unpredictable acts of a masculine obvious discovered good one in Heaven has begun to be recognized by language speaking peoples to be predictable patterns. Maybe as truth and knowledge based on scientifically reproducible discovery has grown exponentially myth of an active, obvious, discovered masculine good one in Heaven has begun to take a smaller role within the popular conception of the function of the known universe.