Formation of Modernity and Post-modernity: Epistemology, Ontology, Anthropology

The history of western thought could be categorized generally into three paradigms of pre-modern، modern and post-modern. It is tried in this article to explore comparatively the worldviews of modernity and post-modernity based on three concepts of epistemology، ontology and anthropology. In other words، the main objective of the argument is to make an in-depth enquiry into the roots and fundamental ingredients of modernity. The question raised is what were the criticisms and weaknesses of modernity which led to the emergence of the school of thought called post-modernism? Hence، three concepts of epistemology، ontology and anthropology are applied as ingredients of comparison between the two paradigms of modernity and post-modernity.