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📌Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Aristotelian Perspectives For Post-modern Reason (i) Notes [^1] I have reserved the term ‘post-modern’ and derivatives, hyphenated, simply to refer to the time coming after the modern period. I shall use the term ‘postmodern’ in reference to a given style of philosophy, with a tendency to the so-called weak thought, relativism and æstheticism.

This type of thought is post-modern chronologically, but typically modern in content, for it is a reaction like so many others that have counterpointed the progress of the enlightened rationalist project (nominalist, relativist and romantic, nihilist, existentialist, vitalist and irrationalist currents, etc.).

The terms ‘actual’ and ‘Actual Age’ are used to designate a certain content for post-modern time, a different content, of course, from the merely postmodern, a content inspired in the notions of act, actuality, and action. So, ‘Actual Age’ will be the name of a period, like ‘Modern Age’, or rather, far from any historicist interpretation, the name of a proposal to give content to the post-modern period, which may or may not be fulfilled.

[^2] I do not mean by this that this is the explanatory key of modernity. I eschew the very notion of explanatory key when we are confronted by such a complex and somewhat diffuse historical phenomenon. [^3] The notion of prudence is closely linked in Aristotle to practical truth. Practical truth may be useful to us in the present debate to integrate the objective and constructive aspects of science. The study of practical truth complements then, that of prudence.

For reasons of brevity, I cannot go into it here, but would refer the reader to the second part of this paper: ‘Aristotelian Perspectives for Post-modern Reason (II). Practical Truth and Creative Discovery’. [^4] Here I only study the valuation of certainty in its link with practical thought and then only in some especially important authors. A more thorough treatment of this topic may be found in A. Marcos (forthcoming): Hacia una filosofía de la ciencia amplia. Tecnos, Madrid. [^5] Husserl, E.

(1976) Die Krisis der Europäischen Wissenschaften und die Transzendentale Phänomenologie (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers). [^6] Kolakowski, L. (1975) Husserl and the Search for Certitude (New Haven: Yale University Press). [^7] Clarke, D. (1982) Descartes' Philosophy of Science (Manchester: Manchester University Press). [^8] Author's translation from: Descartes, R.

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