What characterized premodern philosophy and psychology? Also, what is modernism?
Science came in existence in the form of answering of queries regarding the nature as well as by examination of the nature directly and depends on past authorities, church dogma, superstition as well as thought processes of an abstract.
The debate on whether psychology is a science or just an applied discipline ensured, lead to a debate between another issue like modernism, and postmodernism. Premodernism includes all the prevailing beliefs of Middle Ages, which states that everything encompassing the human behavior can be easily explained.
According to those beliefs, in terms of church dogma led to more of questions being put up on the church’s authority during the Renaissance, eventually resulting in increased objective modes of inquiry.
The more questioning on church authority led to enlightenment. The two important things, which were searched in this quest for knowledge, are experience and reason. Enlightenment is nothing but modernism.
These two terms can be used interchangeably. Two prominent philosophers Hume and Kant challenged the ideals of modernism and came up with a demonstration of the shortcomings of human rationality.