ANTH 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Evolutionism, Montesquieu
26 Apr 2018
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Status to contract (maine): maine"s paradigm of the movement of human history = shift from status (roman legal legacy) to contract (modern law). Savagery, barbarism, civilization (morgan): progress of humanity from savagery, through barbarism, to civilization. Context: 19th century thought = concerned with a grand paradigm of human life. Conception of the world changing due to great explorations and discoveries. Buffon refers to the savage : considered as cold-hearted, cruel, physically inferior to europeans (feeble, not very strong, etc. ) Laws should be so appropriate to the people for whom they are made that it is very unlikely that the laws of one nation can suit another . Geographical relativism: laws cannot be transferred from one place to another. Institutions arouse naturally out of a people"s context, thus it is exclusive to this people. Industrial: 1760-1840, hand craft to machine and factory system. Ideal of social progress, possibility of radical reform and human improvement.
