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Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment - From Locke to Kant (Hardcover)
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Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment - From Locke to Kant (Hardcover)
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What makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or
rather some specific mental capacity, language, or some form of
moral agency or social life? Is there a gendered bias within the
concept of humanity? How do human beings become more human, and can
we somehow cease to be human? This volume provides some answers to
these fundamental questions and more by charting the increased
preoccupation of the European Enlightenment with the concepts of
humankind and humanity. Chapters investigate the philosophical
concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including
Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Ferguson, Kant,
Herder, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Comte de Buffon. As
these philosophers develop important descriptive and comparative
approaches to the human species and moral and social ideals of
humanity, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a
particular kind of humanism that is different from its Ancient and
Renaissance predecessors. With contributions from a team of
internationally recognized scholars, including Stephen Gaukroger,
Michael Forster, Céline Spector, Jacqueline Taylor, and Günter
Zöller, this book offers a novel interpretation of the
Enlightenment that is both clear in focus and impressive in scope.
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