Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
… he discovers a universal reason, namely the jus g entium , the right common to all peoples, beyond their single historicity. While regressing to an uncivilized state of nature, Robinson can speculate in complete solitude, and later … in the age of scientific observation. Crusoe’s Island is an ‘ideal world of peace, harmony, clarity, order, and simplicity’ where he is ‘securely included’, 2 as well as an alien environment, whose surroundings he gradually brings under … century, cosmopolitanism was first and foremost a reaction against the atavistic feudal order that privileged the local city, class, or religious sect. In other words, cosmopolitanism was a reaction against localism. Far from conflicting …
Cosmopolitanism | Deism | Enlightenment | Exploration | Freemasonry | Religion | Solitude
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