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Etymology
The modern term "culture" is based on a term used by the ancient Roman orator Cicero in
his Tusculanae Disputationes, where he wrote of a cultivation of the soul or "cultura animi,"[4] using
an agricultural metaphor for the development of a philosophical soul, understood teleologically as
the highest possible ideal for human development. Samuel Pufendorf took over this metaphor in a
modern context, meaning something similar, but no longer assuming that philosophy was man's
natural perfection. His use, and that of many writers after him, "refers to all the ways in which human
beings overcome their original barbarism, and through artifice, become fully human."[5]
In 1986, philosopher Edward S. Casey wrote, "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' and cultus, 'A
cult, especially a religious one.' 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." [6]