Concept

Humanitas

Overview

Humanitas (from the Latin hūmānus, "human") is a Latin noun meaning human nature, civilization, and kindness. It has uses in the Enlightenment, which are discussed below.

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Philosophers who discussed Humanitas

• Renaissance
• Cicero
• Friedrich Immanuel Niethammer

Related ideas

• German Enlightenment
• Freemasonry
• Meditations
• Immanuel Kant
• Julius Caesar
• Jerome
• Dionysius I of Syracuse
• Latin
• Archimedes
• Middle Ages
• Stoicism
• Marcus Aurelius
• Augustine of Hippo
• Philanthropy
• Classical antiquity
• Renaissance
• Renaissance humanism
• Johann Gottfried Herder
• Age of Enlightenment
• Voltaire
• Belgium
• Altruism
• William Wordsworth
• Philosophes

Place in the tradition

Part of Humanism.

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