CONTRÉES SANS CULTURE: ‘NATURE’ ACROSS THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RIFT
This paper attempts to highlight the difference between the “humanist” – late-medieval and early-modern – idea of nature as applied to both human individuals and the putative original condition of human communities, and the “anthropological” one, inaugurated in the mid-17th century, among others, by...
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| description | This paper attempts to highlight the difference between the “humanist” – late-medieval and early-modern – idea of nature as applied to both human individuals and the putative original condition of human communities, and the “anthropological” one, inaugurated in the mid-17th century, among others, by Hobbes’ Leviathan. Far from constituting a term in a binary opposition whose antonymic component would be variously identifiable as civilization, culture, evolution, development, and so forth, the humanist concept largely incorporated its later contraries: abiding by the dictates of nature amounted to acquiring and exercising those behavioural, moral and social skills which made collective existence happy and peaceful. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25d90a756e5944bd881d00e3221cf4e92023-10-11T06:17:41ZengUniversity of UdineLe Simplegadi1824-52262017-11-011718219310.17456/SIMPLE-66CONTRÉES SANS CULTURE: ‘NATURE’ ACROSS THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RIFTLucia Folena0University of TurinThis paper attempts to highlight the difference between the “humanist” – late-medieval and early-modern – idea of nature as applied to both human individuals and the putative original condition of human communities, and the “anthropological” one, inaugurated in the mid-17th century, among others, by Hobbes’ Leviathan. Far from constituting a term in a binary opposition whose antonymic component would be variously identifiable as civilization, culture, evolution, development, and so forth, the humanist concept largely incorporated its later contraries: abiding by the dictates of nature amounted to acquiring and exercising those behavioural, moral and social skills which made collective existence happy and peaceful.https://le-simplegadi.it/article/view/1158 |
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| title | CONTRÉES SANS CULTURE: ‘NATURE’ ACROSS THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RIFT |
| title_full | CONTRÉES SANS CULTURE: ‘NATURE’ ACROSS THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RIFT |
| title_fullStr | CONTRÉES SANS CULTURE: ‘NATURE’ ACROSS THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RIFT |
| title_full_unstemmed | CONTRÉES SANS CULTURE: ‘NATURE’ ACROSS THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RIFT |
| title_short | CONTRÉES SANS CULTURE: ‘NATURE’ ACROSS THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL RIFT |
| title_sort | contrees sans culture nature across the anthropological rift |
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