The Measure of Things: Humanism, Humility, and MysteryPhilosophers, both western and eastern, have long been divided between humanists, for whom man is the measure of things, and their opponents, who claim that there is a way, in principle knowable and describable, that the world anyway is, independent of human perspectives and interests. The early chapters of The Measure of Things chart the development of humanism from medieval times, through the Renaissance, Enlightenment and Romantic periods, to its