El Caballero del Verde Gabán como modelo de vida

Abstract

The episode of the Knight of the Green Topcoat (Don Quixote, II, 16-18) is reviewed in order to conclude an interpretation of the character, opposed to don Quixote. Not only as a moral example, with respect to the stoicism and Christian epicureanism, but also as a social model. The character will stand for a mode of action guided by utility, as evidenced, among other reasons, by the type of hunting that he holds. Although, of course, far from the idea of public interest that the enlightened adopted as one of its main goals. This would be an active goodness, seeking advantage for themselves and their next. Establishing a model (not far away from the preud’hommie advocated by Pierre Charron in De la sagesse, 1601) that would reflect the moral and social change that occurs as a result of the new social and economic context and new conceptions that Humanism had helped to establish.