Robinson’s and Friday’s Island [ Nature ]
… an uncivilized state of nature, Robinson can speculate in complete solitude, and later establish sociable relationships with the natives and the other persons he introduces into the social order of the island. Crusoe succeeds in socializing as far as he refers to his civitas , his societas , his own civilized world. He finds within himself the elements of divine natural law, i.e., moral values that, ab origine , range from religious items to … The island is both realm and prison, safe haven and cannibal banqueting ground. 4 While it was traditionally discussed with reference to the rise of the novel in the context of European expansion and colonization, more recently it has also …
Cosmopolitanism | Deism | Enlightenment | Exploration | Freemasonry | Religion | Solitude
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