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Man: Natural or Self-Fabricated?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Dominique Bourg
Dominique Bourg*
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CREIDD/UTT
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What is humanity? I do not claim to answer this question; more simply, I will seek to bring to light the now-problematic character of the very concept of humanity. I will start from a basic established fact: today we cannot conceive the notion of humanity without starting from a dual tension, between a distant past and a future which is either more or less near or very remote. In whatever direction one turns, the concept of humanity is confused. It is still more confused if we seek to embrace past and future together.

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Diogenes , Volume 49 , Issue 195 , September 2002, pp. 13 - 19
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Copyright © ICPHS 2002

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