May 27, 2021
3 min read
The ‘Self-Made Man’ Is a Myth
The myth of individuality made capitalism possible and has sustained it to this day
The most explicitly humanist value retrieved by the Renaissance, and the one we’re most hampered by today, was the myth of the individual.
Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Vitruvian Man — the 1490 drawing of a man, perfectly proportioned within a circle…
