The Noble Savage

The Noble Savage is a concept describing hypothetical or real noble men that are comparatively savage (such as in technology, custom or civilization).
The Noble Savage is noted to embody the concept of the indigene, outsider, wild human, an "other" who has not been "corrupted" by civilization, and therefore symbolizes humanity's innate goodness. A male injunversion of the Noble Savage is "The Brave. He is peaceful, kills only to eat or to defend his family, and is not wasteful. The Brave is a spiritual." The Noble Savage is a reoccuring theme in the oeuvre of Adolf Hitler, who describes him through other words. Nazi ideology made a big deal out of noble savagery too. Which kinda makes sense, since you can see elements of it in Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico.
See also: the Noble Beast, such as the Blonde Beast.
Although the phrase "noble savage" does not occur in any of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings, Rousseau, like Shaftesbury, insisted that man was born with the potential for goodness; and he, too, argued that civilization, with its envy and self-consciousness, has made men bad. In his Discourse on the Origins of Inequality Among Men (1754), Rousseau maintained that man in a State of Nature had been a solitary, ape-like creature, who was not méchant (bad), as Hobbes had maintained, but (like some other animals) had an "innate repugnance to see others of his kind suffer" (and this natural sympathy constituted the Natural Man's one-and-only natural virtue).[27] It was Rousseau's fellow philosophe, Voltaire, objecting to Rousseau's egalitarianism, who charged him with primitivism and accused him of wanting to make people go back and walk on all fours.[c] Because Rousseau was the preferred philosopher of the radical Jacobins of the French Revolution, he, above all, became tarred with the accusation of promoting the notion of the "noble savage", especially during the polemics about Imperialism and scientific racism in the last half of the 19th century.[29]
D&D: Chaotic Good or Center Good — or, relatively, Lawful Good.  
Enemies of the Noble Savage: Nick Land and is ilk.  
See also: Anarcho-primitivism, Racism in the work of Charles Dickens, Essays (Montaigne), Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Native American hobbyism in Germany, Native Americans in German popular culture, Neotribalism, Pelagianism, Positive stereotype, Stereotypes about indigenous peoples of North America, Romantic racism, Virtuous pagan, Wild child, Wild man, Concepts: Cultural relativism, (G)olden Age, Master-slave dialectic, Social progress, State of nature, Xenocentrism, Cultural examples: Altamont Free Concert § Security, The Blue Lagoon(novel), Brave New World, A High Wind in Jamaica (novel), Legend of the Rainbow Warriors, Lord of the Flies, Magical Negro, Plastic Shaman, Noble Savage Fallacy  
Novum concept: the Cyborg Savage