ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Travel Literature, Industrial Revolution

• School: McGill University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 222
• Professor: Ronald Niezen

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Idea of progress : trying to understand what characterizes humanity. In the savage, the organs of generation are small and feeble. He has no hair, no beard, no ardour for the female. Though nimbler than the european, because more accustomed to running, his strength is not so great. People in wild places see and hear more strongly and are more connected to the land consensus to a unified humanity after ww2: humans equal in natural endowment, led to un declaration of human rights. Laws should be so appropriate to the people for whom they are made that it is very unlikely that the laws f one nation can suit another. (8) Idea of rupture from established institutions, a break from tradition. An idea that people themselves could be the architect for the society in which they themselves lived in: in the age of enlightenment, swept away aristocracy.