L'homme et la brute au XVIIe siècle Une éthique animale à l'âge classique ?

• Auteur principal: Bedon, Marine (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Lantoine, Jacques-Louis (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Publié: Lyon ENS Éditions 2022
• Collection: La croisée des chemins
• Sujets: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; animal ethics; seventeenth century
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 tha...