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Study Questions (6): Montaigne. Essays.
Humanities 1010
Lange / Fall 1998
Choose one question or raise your own issue to discuss, using a total
of one page. Make sure you don't make unnecessary repetitions. Please type your answers.
Due Date: To be announced in class.
- Define cultural relativism using a passage from one of the essays.
- Compare the development of the portrait in Renaissance painting with Montaigne's
self-reflective style in his essays. How does the exploration of the self in art and
literature encode Renaissance values?
- How would you characterize Montaigne's style of writing, his method of procedure?
Discuss the quotation as a rhetorical device to support an argument and give it authority.
- Discuss Montaigne's view about nature and technology. How do these views relate to his
valorization of the self?
- How are the Indians, according to Montaigne, closer to nature? Comment on his statements
on nature, justice, reason, and courage.
- What does Montaigne criticize about his society? What does he say about social hierarchy
and class structure?
- What is his attitude towards cannibalism?
- Focus on a passage and develop and answer and a question of your own.
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