Abstract

The study concerns the theme of human dignity in the sixteenth-century Ibero-American environment. It indicates parallels and motifs of these treatises congruent with contemporary European works about human dignity as well as their specifics. Fascination with what the discovery of the New World meant for the growth of human dignity and gnoseological optimism is considered to be a specific feature. Particular Spanish treatises about the dignity of man are examined as well as discursively diversified contemporary texts of Ibero-American provenance which connect the theme of human dignity with the discovery of the New World. © 2018, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. All rights reserved.