In the 18th century
the discovering of new populations in America, Polynesia, Africa, because of
the explorers’ travels around the world, brought around a new vision of the
human being. They found whole populations organised in a very different way
than the Europeans, with no royal absolutism, without inequalities, without
religious intolerance, without excessive ambitions of profits. The
“myth of the Noble Savage” showed up in the scenario, as a pure being in
contact with Nature, not contaminated by modern society.
Then the whole
structure of European society, based on a system ruled by the Church and
the Kingdom, was debated and all its rules and moral concepts,
considered until that time as absolutes, were seriously discussed
and criticised.
Here you
can download a PDF Presentation to improve your knowledge of the "myth of
the Noble Savage".
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