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The XVII century debate on hom*o sapiens Preprint of a chapter of the book Contributions on History and Philosophy of Science. (To be published
2022 •
Antonio Leon
As many authors of the time used to say, the Age of Enlightenment, approximately 1700-1789, represents the awakening of long centuries of darkness and ignorance to a new era illuminated by the light of reason and respect for humanity. The study of the conception of man in several representative authors of this time constitutes the objective of this work. After a brief analysis of the Age of Enlightenment, the conclusions obtained on each of the authors studied are presented: Descartes, de La Mettrie, Hervás, Buffon, Voltaire and Diderot. All of them enlightened authors, except Descartes who belongs to the Scientific Revolution of the XVI-XVII centuries. Although all the authors studied dealt with man, not all dealt with the same aspects. Thus, Descartes and de La Mettrie worked more on aspects related to the functioning of the human body, the latter also dealt with certain aspects of human psychology. Hervás, Buffon, Voltaire and Diderot developed a more complete anthropology, taking an interest in aspects such as the human species, races, the constitution and evolution of societies, morality, etc. In the last part of the work, a comparative analysis of the authors studied is presented, which includes their methodology, their vision of the origin and nature of man, their relationship with other species of animals, and the social and moral aspects of anthropology.
The General Science Journal
The XVII century debate on hom*o sapiens
2022 •
Antonio Leon
As many authors of the time used to say, the Age of Enlightenment, approximately 1700-1789, represents the awakening of long centuries of darkness and ignorance to a new era illuminated by the light of reason and respect for humanity. The study of the conception of man in several representative authors of this time constitutes the objective of this work. After a brief analysis of the Age of Enlightenment, the conclusions obtained on each of the authors studied are presented: Descartes, de La Mettrie, Hervás, Buffon, Voltaire and Diderot. All of them enlightened authors, except Descartes who belongs to the Scientific Revolution of the XVI-XVII centuries. Although all the authors studied dealt with man, not all dealt with the same aspects. Thus, Descartes and de La Mettrie worked more on aspects related to the functioning of the human body, the latter also dealt with certain aspects of human psychology. Hervás, Buffon, Voltaire and Diderot developed a more complete anthropology, taking an interest in aspects such as the human species, races, the constitution and evolution of societies, morality, etc. In the last part of the work, a comparative analysis of the authors studied is presented, which includes their methodology, their vision of the origin and nature of man, their relationship with other species of animals, and the social and moral aspects of anthropology.
Jacques Cujas (1522-1590), Jurisconsulte humaniste, Genève, Droz (Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, n°DXLI), 2015 [préface d’Anne Rousselet-Pimont et Jean-Louis Thireau ; version imprimée : 592 p. ; version numérique : 864 p.]
Xavier Prevost
Jacques Cujas apparaît comme l’un des principaux représentants de l’humanisme juridique, courant qui introduit l’idée d’évolution dans la construction du droit et des institutions. Au fil de ses professorats, Cujas poursuit la critique humaniste en portant à son apogée la méthode historique. Il cherche à rétablir les textes dans leur version d’origine par la recherche des interpolations, tout en intégrant les dispositions commentées dans la longue durée. Il s’appuie tant sur sa maîtrise de la doctrine juridique, que sur sa vaste culture littéraire et philosophique. Ses travaux de philologue et d’éditeur restent d’utiles références, sans même évoquer ses reconstitutions commentées des ouvrages des juristes romains ou son analyse critique du corpus juris civilis. L’érudition ne tient cependant pas Cujas trop éloigné de la pratique, comme le prouvent ses consultations ou son étude de la féodalité. Soumis à l’épreuve de l’humanisme cujacien, le droit ressort transformé de la confrontati...
General Introduction: Philosophical Ethology (Angelaki 19.3 2014)
Brett Buchanan (he/him), jeffrey bussolini
Man and Other Political Animals in Aristotle. In: Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó – Tamás Lénárt – Attila Simon – Roland Végső (eds.): Life After Literature. Perspectives on Biopoetics in Literature and Theory. Springer, 2020, 55–66.
Attila Simon
Based on some passages from Aristotle's biological and dialectical works, this paper aims to clarify what lies in the background of the difference that Aristotle establishes between man and other political animals in Politics I 2 (1253a7-15). First, the paper focuses on the conceptual content of man as (" more ") political animal and the connection between this concept of man and logos. Second, in the context of an analysis of the difference between voice and language (phōnē and logos), it points out the central role sumbolon, as conventional linguistic sign, plays in the above-mentioned differentiation. This conventionality implies that every word offers an interpretation of what it signifies, and due to this interpretative feature produces differences in opinions among users of language. Since human language is based on sumbola, it is characterized by an openness that makes it possible for this implicit linguistic interpretation of things to become the basis of forming opinions, and thus to be subject to further interpretations and discussions. Additionally, this conventionality is constitutive for the sumbolon, and it gives a special political character to human communal life, far beyond the animal communities, for this conventional character places human language in an open and transformable space of dialogue and reasoning about public issues that animal communication lacks.
Man and Society: Five-Hundred Years of French Philosophy
Ricardo J . Peña
La question naturelle et la littérature.1975
joelle mesnil
texte remis à l'université Paris7 en 1975 comme sujet de thèse d'anthropologie.
Journal of Linguistics
Ulla Jokinen, Les relatifs en moyen français: formes et fonctions. (Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, dissertationes humanarum litterarum, 14.) Helsinki, 1978. Pp. vi+428
1979 •
Paula Clifford
Non Est Natura Sine Persona. The Issue of Uninstantiated Universals from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages
Christophe Erismann
9 Brissonius in Context: De formulis et solennibus populi Romani verbis
Eva Jakab
