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Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment
From Locke to Kant
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Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment
From Locke to Kant
About this book
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.
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction Stefanie Buchenau and Ansgar Lyssy
- 1 The presumptive unity of humankind in Locke’s Essay Philippe Hamou
- 2 Human nature in Montesquieu Céline Spector
- 3 The image of the human being in the Comte de Buffon Catherine Wilson
- 4 Hume on humanity and the party of humankind Jacqueline Taylor
- 5 Humankind and humanity in Diderot Ansgar Lyssy
- 6 How do humans become human(e)? On Rousseau’s Second Discourse and Emile Gabrielle Radica
- 7 ‘In the human kind, the species has a progress as well as the individual’: Adam Ferguson on the progress of ‘mankind’ Eveline Hauck and Norbert Waszek
- 8 The association of science and civilization in the Enlightenment Stephen Gaukroger
- 9 Philoctetes at the edge of humanity: The German Enlightenment debate on social exclusion and the education of feeling Stefanie Buchenau
- 10 Enlightenment moral philosophy and moral psychology: Baumgarten, Kant and Herder on moral feeling(s) and obligation Nigel DeSouza
- 11 Herder on humanity Michael N. Forster
- 12 Blumenbach on the varieties of the human species François Duchesneau
- 13 Can Kant’s man be a woman? Charlotte Morel
- 14 ‘Anthroponomy’. Kant on the natural and the rational human being Günter Zöller
- Index
- Imprint