Kosmopolis
“The 16th -century humanists were the founders of the modern Humanities just as surely as the 17th -century natural philosophers were founders of modern Science and Philosophy: for instance, the ways of describing human cultures implicit in Book VI of Aristotle’s Ethics, and reintroduced in our day by Clifford Geertz as “thick descriptionâ€, were already put to use in Montaigne’s omnivorous ethnography. Indeed, the contrast between humanism and rationalism – between the accumulation of concrete details of practical experience, and the analysis of an abstract core of theoretical concepts – is a ringing pre-echo of the debate on the Two Cultures provoked by CP Snow (…)” (Toulmin, Kosmopolis, p.43)