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:blob_pout: I am certainly not envious.

:blob_teary: I want to be manga too ...

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:meowsip: Different concept. For women marriage was everything in the social ladder. For men nothing. But even then Mr and Mrs are recent inventions. Such titles denoted status and were not given out willy nilly. Mr shortened for master, magister. It was a rank and only became later what it is...

:meowsip: All these honorifics and rules that fell into disuse. Thankfully.

:meowsip: It gets even more complex if you explore the entire history behind it. People in the east sometimes judge western culture as young because we don't have this territorial and statal continuity like China. But the fact is that the western world is building on the ancient Greco Roman...

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:meowsip: This is where humanity in the original sense came from.

The concept was of great importance during the re-discovery of classical antiquity during the Renaissance by the Italian umanisti, beginning with the illustrious Italian poet Petrarch, who revived Cicero's injunction to cultivate the humanities, which were understood during the Renaissance as...

Echoing Cicero over a century later, Pliny the Younger (61–112 CE) defined humanitas as the capacity to win the affections of lesser folk without impinging on greater.

Insofar as humanitas corresponded to philanthrôpía and paideia, it was particularly applicable to guiding the proper exercise of power over others. Hence Cicero's advice to his brother that "if fate had given you authority over Africans or Spaniards or Gauls, wild and barbarous nations, you...

Cicero (106–43 BCE) used humanitas in describing the formation of an ideal speaker (orator) who he believed should be educated to possess a collection of virtues of character suitable both for an active life of public service and a decent and fulfilling private life; these would include a fund...

The Latin word humanitas corresponded to the Greek concepts of philanthrôpía (loving what makes us human) and paideia (education) which were amalgamated with a series of qualities that made up the traditional unwritten Roman code of conduct (mos maiorum).[1]

:meowsip: The original meaning of humanitas denoted being humane rather than being human. It described civilised behaviour primarily. That was humanitas. It was never used in the sense of mankind entity outisde of English.

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LuoirM :blob_reach: You are more like a kitten that strikes. That is cute.

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