The Humanist City

The Humanist City, subtitled: Influencing the life and death of great citizens, is a book, published 1752, from notes, papers, and speeches of Gerhardt Eugen Seydlitz, 1st Duke of Gotfriedplatz, and co-authored by his offspring: Louis Eugen Seydlitz, 2nd Duke of Gotfriedplatz, Thomas Philippe Seydlitz, Emmanuel Philibert Seydlitz, Marie Seydlitz, Françoise Seydlitz, and grandson, Captain Lord Gerhardt Wilhelm Seydlitz.

Contents

Humanist Urbanism is defined as a philosophy of a city in which the coordinated state and the harmonious society are optimized, simply by providing the best environment and conditions in which it is permitted to flourish. Civic organizations and civic spaces should not be just permitted to exist in a vacuum, but must be deliberately utilized and rightly-guided to advance the city and induce great citizens as a whole. Humanist urbanism espouses that mediocrity in all human aspects must be purged, because these ideas lead to the eventual destruction of a national polity. Unity must be cultivated not just by a common consensus, but because of better-quality ideas result to better-quality outcomes. There is a short discussion attacking concepts of humanism as elitism and contrary to the common good, and defending humanism as the common good.

His Aguilarist influence from his years in Constancia are evident, and the constitutional, Humanist, monarchy as a national framework is also discussed.