L'homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle

Une éthique animale à l'âge classique ?

Edited by Marine Bedon, Jacques-Louis Lantoine

Human and brute in 17th century.

An animal ethics in early modern philosophy?

Anyone seeking the premises of animal ethics in the 17th century might be disappointed. "Brute beasts", as they were then called, were excluded from the sphere of obligations by many, not only by a few cartesian mechanists. A lot of authors maintained that "beasts" feel and even that they have a soul, which is not that different from ours. Many were outraged at human cruelty towards them. Some claimed that they are endowed with reason, sometimes using them as a point of comparison in order to belittle human pride. They were even given rights. The diversity of positions, representations and arguments rarely coincides with the charges we lay against early modern philosophy today. Not all of these authors are Cartesians, and the animal-machine theory is perhaps a little more than the effect of a mere prejudice. Paradoxically, those who were the freest from anthropocentrism radically claimed the absence of any ethical link between men and beasts. Reading these works from another age in the light of a question they could not formulate challenges what we consider self-evident today and provides us with resources to pose and solve problems that are ours, and not theirs.

Title L'homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle

Subtitle Une éthique animale à l'âge classique ?

Edition First Edition

Edited by Marine Bedon, Jacques-Louis Lantoine

Collection La croisée des chemins

ISSN 17658128

Publisher ENS Éditions

BISAC Subject Heading PHI001000 PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
PHI005000 PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
PHI013000 PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics
LIT024020 LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century

BIC Subject Heading HPQ Ethics & moral philosophy
HPK Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
HPJ Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

Dewey (abridged) 170 Ethics
110 Metaphysics
111 Ontology

Audience 05 College/higher education
06 Professional and scholarly

CLIL (Version 2013-2019) 4126 Métaphysique et ontologie
3129 Philosophie moderne
3131 Philosophe XVIIe siècle (Malebranche, Leibniz,…)

Title First Published 10 February 2022

ONIX Adult Audience Rating 01 Any adult audience

Includes Index; Bibliography

Format Paperback

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ISBN-13 979-10-362-0492-0

GTIN13 (EAN13) 9791036204920

Publication Date 10 February 2022

Publication LYON, France

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Main content page count 308

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Dimensions 15 x 23 cm

List Price 29.00 €

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ISBN-13 979-10-362-0493-7

GTIN13 (EAN13) 9791036204937

Publication Date 10 February 2022

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Main content page count 308

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