As described by philosopher Edward S. Casey (1996): The very word culture meant place tilled in Middle English, and the same word goes back to Latin colere, to inhabit, care for, till, worship. To be cultural, to have a culture, is to inhabit a place sufficiently intensely to cultivate it - to be responsible for it, to respond to it, to attend to it caringly.[8] As described by Velkley:[7] The term culture, which originally meant the cultivation of the soul or mind, acquires most of its later modern meanings in the writings of the 18th-century German thinkers, who were on various levels developing Rousseaus criticism of ″modern liberalism and Enlightenment″. Thus a contrast between culture and civilization is usually implied in these authors, even when not expressed as such. Two primary meanings of culture emerge from this period: culture as the folk-spirit having a unique identity and culture as cultivation of waywardness or free individuality. The first meaning is predominant in our current use of the term culture, although the second still plays a large role in what we think culture should achieve, namely the full expression of the unique or authentic self.
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