Is human civilisation about to grow up and take on responsibility for its actions? "The Anglo-Saxon usage of the adjective “adult” relates to a grown-up person; in the German language “adult” is mainly used as a biological term for maturity. At the end of quantitative growth, the term in its neuterform “Adultum” could accentuate the emancipatory skills and knowledge of adulthood in social terms as a name for the coming age. "As a term rooted in the tradition of the Enlightenment it would, as a … Continue reading