“Humanism vs Humanity”

This lengthy and fascinating essay focuses on the question “What does it mean to be a human being?” It argues for the view that a human can act as a human only by communication with other humans, which in turn inevitably implies morality, culture, division of labor between the sexes, etc. Many of these phenomena are nowadays regarded as old fashioned or unhumanistic. Vahtre shows that such a view of humanism might contradict the foundations of being human. Has humanistic ideology reached a crisis? Vahtre claims that already this century should provide an answer whether the developed Western world will witness a triumph or a great disappointment.