• Humanitas in Rousseau and Kant
    Dissertation, New School University. 2003.
    The legacy of Humanity can be found in the Greco-Latin Humanitas . This concept is two-fold. It incorporates the ideals of both humaneness and cultivation. Rousseau thought we were cultivated in the 18th century, but not humane. There was, consequently, a breakdown between the humane and cultivated aspects of our self-definition. He tried to consider if we were ever humane, or if we were, how did we go 'wrong'. He developed this idea of the 'state of nature', a kind of 'Garden of Eden', and then…Read more