The “Discovery” of New Territories Offered to the Jus Communicationis

Abstract

This work suggests how much human sciences can learn from a booklet almost all cultures know, The Little Prince. It stimulates to read them in their anthropological aspects of behavior facing alterity, highlighting its value without proposing it as educational element to homogenize the different. The reflection is thus focused on the demolishing and lasting effects of European culture during its colonization of American and African people. The contribution ends with Ferraioli and De Vitoria's considerations on a society based on the axiom of the free circulation of men and goods, and the legitimization of thinking given by natural law.

KEYWORDS:

• Anthropological surrender
• communication
• culture
• interculture
• new modernity

Acknowledgments

Sections 1, 5, and 6 have been written by Gualtiero Harrison, while sections 2, 3, and 4 have been written by Giuseppe Licari. The text structure, however, has been thought by both authors.