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dc.contributor.authorBedon, Marine
dc.contributor.authorLantoine, Jacques-Louis
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-01T15:56:18Z
dc.date.available2022-07-01T15:56:18Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20220701_9791036204944_802
dc.identifier.issn2679-0203
dc.identifier.urihttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/85327
dc.languageFrench
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLa croisée des chemins
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCD Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thoughten_US
dc.subject.otheranimal ethics
dc.subject.otherseventeenth century
dc.titleL’homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle
dc.title.alternativeUne éthique animale à l’âge classique ?
dc.typebook
oapen.abstract.otherlanguageAnyone seeking the premise of animal ethics in the 17th century will undoubtedly be disappointed. “Brute beasts”, as they were then called, were excluded from the sphere of obligations, and not just by a few cartesian mechanics. A large number of authors maintained that animals feel or 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 mere prejudice. None, however, envisage an ethical, moral or legal link with animals. Paradoxically, those most free from anthropocentrism grant them rights, but most radically claim the absence of any ethical link between men and animals. 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, not theirs.
oapen.identifier.doi10.4000/books.enseditions.39867
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2ef10e66-6d3e-4b6d-9799-bf76360dd3e6
oapen.relation.isbn9791036204944
oapen.relation.isbn9791036204920
oapen.pages308
oapen.place.publicationLyon


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