Humanism and human malleability.

Free Inquiry | March 22, 1996| | Copyright

There has been a long-standing attempt to give a decisive definition for the term human being. Legend has it that Plato once gathered together all the learned minds of Athens to come up with a definite description. They mutually arrived at the definition of "a featherless biped," at which point Diogenes the Cynic rushed into the room with a plucked chicken, declaring, "Here is Plato's man."

Aristotle came up with a definition that has served well over the centuries: human beings are "rational animals." Rationality is an essential property, timeless and unchanging. Later ...

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