Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity

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1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Introduction No access
1. The Anthropological Argument No access
2. Notes No access
1. The Context of the Discoveries No access
2. Human Nature in the New World No access
3. The Conflict of Doctrines Regarding Human Nature No access
4. The Universality of Human Rights No access
5. Natural Slavery No access
6. The Laws of Burgos and the Rights of the Natives No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
1. Coligny’s Project No access
2. A Diaphonia in the New World No access
3. Montaigne and the New World as Mirror No access
4. Notes No access
1. The Role of Language No access
2. Language Before the Colonization No access
3. Language and Empire No access
4. A “Sweet Language” No access
5. The Diversity of Men’s Ingenuity: Language in José de Acosta’s Historia Natural Y Moral de Las Índias No access
6. The Challenge of the Languages of the New World No access
7. Language and Colonization No access
8. Analysis No access
9. Criticism of Todorov’s Thesis No access
10. Notes No access
1. Colonization and Decolonization No access
2. New Worlds No access
3. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 93 - 96
Index No access Pages 97 - 100
About the Author No access Pages 101 - 102