In his essays, Montaigne writes of himself, the health of its pleasures and amusements, the individual Montaigne occupies all the space, there is no other.
few decades before, in "Gargantua and Pantagruel", the human body is the protagonist. This body claims, shake, it expands, even the border and the world body thins and becomes transparent.
now I wonder: maybe it went beyond what Montaigne meant at the time? Perhaps the environmental and ecological problems of today stem from this source also. If man makes himself the center will feel empowered to meet their material needs without imposing limits?
But I do not think we have always been materialistic. Just that sometimes we tell ourselves something to convince us that we are not. Or that we are special and therefore entitled to be.
The issue is complex. It expects other post for discussion.
0 comments:
Post a Comment