Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Humanism and Nationalism

Humanism implies a concept of Human that is liberated from Supernatural premises, though, as has been previously discussed, that ambition has not always been successful.  It also implies a concept of Human that is distinct from a concept of semi-Human.  Now, one case of the latter is a concept of some subset of the species, e. g. a Nation.  Thus, Nationalism is not a Humanist concept.  In other words, none of the major works of Modern Political Philosophy, i. e. that of Hobbes, Locke, Spinoza, Rousseau, or Smith, can be classified as fully Humanist.  It is only when the entire world is the locus of a political model, e. g. in Kant's or Marx's model, that all of Humankind is being taken into consideration.

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