The article "Of the Cannibals" by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne talks about two great problems. The first is the problem of men telling stories subjectively rather than objectively. This issue is only covered very briefly and there is no real solution presented in the essay. The other problem is men who call others barbaric just because they are different. The essay also deals with the word "barbarism" and what can be meant by it. Eyquem de Montaignes' thesis is that his fellow countrymen are neither less nor more barbaric than cannibals, who are nevertheless very close to nature and the origin of life. .The following essay excerpt will delve into these issues.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born in 1533. After a deeply humanistic education and a relatively unhappy marriage, he secluded himself in a tower of his castle to read and meditate. As he explains in the first of them, he began writing essays, a form of literature he invented, as a way to keep track of what he read. Upon his return from a tour of Italy in 1580, Montaigne was persuaded by King Henry III to accept the post of mayor of the city of Bordeaux; but after one term, the difficulties and difficulties of the religious wars which were then raging in the area induced him to return to his retirement; and died there in 1592. "Of Cannibals" constitutes Montaigne's reflections, some fifteen years later, on the occasion of his meeting, in Rouen in 1562, with a cannibal who had been brought to France by the French explorer Villegagnon. The essay is about people reporting things very subjectively to make others believe them and to make it more dramatic than it really was. The writer says that reason in this case should count... middle of the paper... convinced that the corruption of his own people will one day destroy the happiness of this tribe. So the main problem of the sage must be seen in the opinion of what is barbaric and his thesis is that these people are no more barbaric than his own countrymen. He says it is only a matter of interpretation and the solution to his problem must be that men often call barbarism what is not common to them. So the tribe sees the “civilized” nation as strange and perhaps barbaric and vice versa. My opinion is that barbarism is indeed a matter of definition, but there are some things that can generally be seen as barbaric regardless of culture, such as inequality between people leading to the death of poorer ones or corruption and be governed. from thoughts of money. Probably something barbaric can be found in every nation and tribe.