-ーーーーーーーーーHumanism in the 21st century ーーーーーーーーーーーー
Taking even the moon, and both the PC and the flower in human being, we established neo-humanism.
I found naming called "the neo-humanism". How we should call outlook on human being that includes human being environment and social things, we made trial and error,. It’s so good that we call it "neo-humanism", because it’s so simple and clear. Neo-humanism overcome early modern humanism, humanism in 19th century and humanism in 20th. century.
The Renaissance began a reevaluation of the human ability that has greed and sensitivity and revived humanism in classical antiquity. Then it became the times from theocentricity to anthropocentricity. But people established the internal faith for the North Europe Renaissance and they recognized Bible most important book. And people arrived at the Reformation of religion.
The modern humanism is related to the independence of an individual man in the modern civil society. It had brought the establishment of the subjectivity to recognize. And it had born the establishment of empiricism of the bacon and "the cogito" (self to consider) that was the first principle of the philosophy of Descartes. Then to rule nature by the scientific recognition of objective nature became the principle of the machine civilization in modern times. It is the anthropocentrism which is going to rule nature. The result is the science and technology in modern times and is the big industrial of machine system .
The humanism in 20th. century is theory of alienation and the critical theory over becoming matter or things, and over fetishism. The modern industrial civilization that a human being created becomes gigantic and becomes unmanageable and human nature was lost.
The human being becomes a part of the machine and the thing and is treated as a thing.
A product and a machine and the product which were things managed human being society. They dominated it as a human being, and the independence of will of individuals was lost and has come to be totally powerless. It is humanism in 20th. century to demand recovery of independence of the human will in such situation.
The neo-humanism captures human being including the human being environment and social things that a human being brought about . In addition, the organizations such as a nation, the local government, a company, an association, the political party are caught as a human being, too. In other words it is the way of thinking that it is said to review human being existence comprehensively without limiting a human domain to only physical individuals, because relations of the human being society are completed including them. In other words The neo-humanism is not jaundiced so that the thing which are not human Being presses human being, takes human being nature away.
Criticism that it is perversion of the fetishism to consider to be a human being including social things comes back from humanism in 20th. century , This thought comes from that people have limited a human range to physical individuals.
But the human being is not able to be captured in the human being concept that excluded things and the relations that oneself created, because the human beings are reproduced by them and things and relations with individuals prescribe human being society as existence of negotiating and move it.
Actually, only a body and self to dwell in there do not have the human nature, and it is in the culture that social things constitute. Nothing is left to the human being. when I deduct them from a human being. It is similar to peeling the onion.
If you would recognize human nature in the thing, you would be complained that you would make things human being. They say that because to make things human being is to make human being things, you deny human being nature. But this is only because the thing and the human being were made into the opposite-poles concept.
On the contrary, it is humanization of the cosmoses (the world) to subsume environmental nature and social things into a human being, and there is the criticism to be the prime example of the anthropocentrism. This is because this persists in the human being vs. environment, the human being vs. nature, human being objective contraposition, and the human being does not exist apart from environment and nature and a thing particularly. World itself is the aspect of human being.
Of course this neo-humanism does not reject outlook and concept on established human being in callousness and does not deny that people live in outlook on human being persisting in physical outlook on human being and personal me using an established human being concept as far as it is effective for each. The idea of the humanism in 20th.century to appeal for recovery of the human nature for huge machine civilization is important.
But we should not remain in it. We should have subsumed it And I want to appeal that we should wake at the human being who contained environmental nature and social things and organizations based on switch of the outlook on human being.
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