Dingo the Dissident

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Thursday, 30 October 2025

Thucydides.

Being somewhat deaf,
I may have mis-heard,
but I think

to anthropion 
τό ανθρώπιόν
was a word he coined
to encompass human
-ness, the human condition,
and human behaviour,

but definitely not
Roman-Christian
humanity/humanitas 
in its religiously
self-congratulatory
sense, which arose much later.





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