City of Man

City of Man is work by New School academic Silvius Herminus Januarius. One of the forerunners of Terran Humanism, he had observed an already existing trend of honoring an ancient archetypal pantheon that had remained strong in spite of the decline of both Old Earth religion and non-believing philosophies. He penned several academic studies on the subject and later collected and edited them for the masses, published as City of Man. 
Within the work, he argues for an unconscious, universally human urge to manifest divinity in a world of technology . He argued for divinity as a general abstract concept as something metaphysically real, but originating in humanity rather than humanity being a creation of an eternal divinity. It is therefore up to humanity to create its own divinities in accordance with the conscious set of morals and virtues they wish to embody. He laid out these tenets, argued for a guiding virtuous but pragmatic and materialistic ethic, and presented the names of the ancient Roman deities along with their ancient syncretic counterparts — already then in widespread use — as the epitome of these manifest human virtues.
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