Enlightenment against EmpirePrinceton University Press, 10.01.2009 - 368 Seiten In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against Empire is the first book devoted to the anti-imperialist political philosophies of an age often regarded as affirming imperial ambitions. Sankar Muthu argues that thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and Johann Gottfried Herder developed an understanding of humans as inherently cultural agents and therefore necessarily diverse. These thinkers rejected the conception of a culture-free "natural man." They held that moral judgments of superiority or inferiority could be made neither about entire peoples nor about many distinctive cultural institutions and practices. |
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... notes that Amerindians are natural in the manner of Epicureans, rather than Stoics, for this implies that their natural lifestyle derives from following their most basic desires in order to meet their unartificial needs and thus to ...
Sankar Muthu. artificial, or acultural, life empirically exists. Montaigne himself notes that the greatest lawgivers ... (note that he does not, of course, aim to challenge the view that they are largely creatures of nature), Montaigne ...
... notes above, it only “seems” as if we have no other standard of truth than our own customs, and at the outset of the cannibals essay he intones that “we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not ...
... note that the intent, and much of the power, of such accounts lay in their attempts to foster humanistic and tolerant moral ... notes of his portrayal of Amerindians, “there is an amazing distance between their character and ours.” (158) ...
... New World societies can enlighten Europe. Describing his approach toward understanding Amerindians, Lahontan notes that he attempts to steer a middle course between theologians who view them as incapable of reflection (and, 28 CHAPTER TWO.
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