Think Again
October, 2009
WE UNDERSTAND HOW WE THINK, WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMANEvery era has a conception of who we are. In classical times it was the doctrine of Political Man, which defined humans in terms of their place in the social order. In the Christian Middle Ages we had Religious Man, defined by his relationship with God. The Enlightenment brought us Economic Man, who organized his life around the rational pursuit of self-interest. And then, according to the critic Philip Rieff, the 20th...
