L’homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle
Anyone 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 hav...
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| description | Anyone 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-853272024-04-08T19:53:58Z L’homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle Bedon, Marine Lantoine, Jacques-Louis animal ethics seventeenth century bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCD Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Anyone 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. 2022-07-01T15:56:18Z 2022-07-01T15:56:18Z 2022 book ONIX_20220701_9791036204944_802 2679-0203 9791036204944 9791036204920 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/85327 fre La croisée des chemins image/png n/a https://www.7switch.com/fr/ebook/9791036204944/from/openedition https://books.openedition.org/enseditions/39867 ENS Éditions 10.4000/books.enseditions.39867 Anyone 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. 10.4000/books.enseditions.39867 2ef10e66-6d3e-4b6d-9799-bf76360dd3e6 9791036204944 9791036204920 308 Lyon open access |
| spellingShingle | animal ethics seventeenth century bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCD Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Bedon, Marine Lantoine, Jacques-Louis L’homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle |
| title | L’homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle |
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| title_short | L’homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle |
| title_sort | l homme et la brute au xviie siecle |
| topic | animal ethics seventeenth century bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCD Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought |
| topic_facet | animal ethics seventeenth century bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCD Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought |
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