Brutal Reasoning : Animals, Rationality, and Humanity in Early Modern England /

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Early modern English thinkers were fascinated by the subject of animal rationality, even before the appearance of Descartes's Discourse on the Method (1637) and its famous declaration of the automatism of animals. But as Erica Fudge relates in Brutal Reasoning, the discussions were not as strai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fudge, Erica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Philosophy, English
Philosophical anthropology
Animals (Philosophy)
Rationalization (Psychology)
Reason > Philosophy > History.
Philosophy, English > 17th century.
Philosophy, English > 16th century.
Philosophical anthropology > History.
Human beings > Animal nature > History.
Animals (Philosophy) > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Rationalisation (Psychologie)
Philosophie anglaise > Histoire.
Anthropologie philosophique > Angleterre > Histoire.
Animaux (Philosophie) > Angleterre > Histoire.
Rationalization
Human Characteristics
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Animals
Philosophy > history
Anthropology > history
Philosophy, English > History.
Philosophical anthropology > England > History.
Animals (Philosophy) > England > History.
England
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1. Being Human
  • CHAPTER 2. Becoming Human
  • CHAPTER 3. Becoming Animal
  • CHAPTER 4. Being Animal
  • CHAPTER 5. A Reasonable Animal?
  • CHAPTER 6. A Reasonable Human?
  • Conclusion Brutal Reasoning
  • Primary Materials
  • Note on Secondary Sources
  • Index

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