Revival in 18th and 19th Century Germany
During the Aufklarung (or German version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment), the term "Humanität was used to designate the intellectual, physical, and moral formation of "a better human being" (or Humanism) through immersion in the highest artistic and literary achievements of ancient Greece (harking back to the original connection of the term with the Ancient Greek concept of paideia). It was used, for example, by Johann Gottfried Herder in his Briefe zur Beförderung der Humanität and by Friedrich Schiller.
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