Georg Ebner
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« on: April 11, 2024, 11:14:22 AM » |
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Yes, they are.
Historically "Humanists" in the ReNaissance were partly insofar able to be Christians, as they were not humanists, i.e. believing in the goodness of mankind.
Amusingly all this modern humanism/optimism/progressism has no basis in the Ancient, who were far too intelligent for forgetting the human limits. Just look at THUKYDIDE or TACITUS. It was a Syrian ApoLogete, who spoke for the first time of "human dignity", but for us Christians that's not more than a parcel of GOD to us. It were pseudoChr. "humanists" (beginning with gothic scholasticism), who took this gift for granted and as a part of human nature. Ending in the present paraDoxon, that in theory "human dignity", "human rights" aso. are held in high regard; in practice people have never before exploited others as shamlessly as the modern bourgeois has done, have never before sunken so deeply into primitive animality.
But that's no wonder: "The human is neither angle nor beast. And our misery means, that whoever makes him an angle, makes him a beast." (PASCAL)
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