Høgel The Human and the Humane

Humanity as Argument from Cicero to Erasmus
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0441-7
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Volume 008, Part, 130 Seiten

Reihe: Reflections on (In)Humanity

In times of conflicts and crises, an argument insisting on the humane is commonly heard. In wars, voices demanding a humane treatment of prisoners - as decreed by the Geneva Convention - will be raised. Opposition to social injustice may be framed in a collected call for a humane society. Even educational systems may insist on having a humane perspective among its leading causes. Words referring to man - humane, but also humanistic, humanitarian, even humanity - thus take on status of ideals for mankind. Man, in common and legal speech, thus becomes the conceptual marker of his own perfection. The subject of this book is the early history of this linguistic feature and in particular its argumentative use, from its starting point till early modern times.

Prof Dr Christian Høgel teaches at the University of Southern Denmark. He is co-director of the Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense & York).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Høgel, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;5
4;Body;7
5;Foreword;7
6;Introduction;9
7;Chapter 1: The Humane as Argument;17
7.1;Beginnings;28
8;Chapter 2: The Humanitas of Cicero;41
8.1;Laws and diplomacy;45
8.2;The empire: provincials, barbarians, and slaves;49
8.3;The dynamic turn;58
8.4;Subject or object or both: cultural education or the law?;65
9;Chapter 3: Implementing Humanitas;69
9.1;Imperial responses;70
9.2;Humanitas as `humanitarian';74
9.3;Seneca;76
10;Chapter 4: Christianizing Humanitas;85
10.1;Lactantius;85
10.2;Other medieval usages;92
11;Chapter 5: Humanitas as Argument Against War;99
11.1;The Italian humanists;100
11.2;First beginnings in the Renaissance;106
11.3;Erasmus and later humanists;107
12;Epilogue: Ancient Humanitas after Erasmus;115
13;Bibliography;119
14;Abbreviations of ancient, Greek-Roman sources;125
15;Index;129

Über Autor(innen)

Høgel, Christian
Prof Dr Christian Høgel teaches at the University of Southern Denmark. He is co-director of the Centre for Medieval Literature (Odense & York).