Article ID: CBB157477355

Rorario tra Naudé e Bayle (2011)

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Written in 1544 and published by Naudé at Paris in 1648, the humanist Girolamo Rorario's "Quod animalia bruta ratione utantur melius homine" is set within a naturalistic framework and clearly exhibits a Plutarchian influence. By placing this text back in circulation, Naudé recovers, in line with Montaigne and in tacit opposition to Cartesianism, the hypothesis of animal rationality, while his dedicatory Epistola to the Dupuy brothers refers to a far-reaching libertas philosophica. Rorario's work would enjoy renewed popularity thanks to the entry Rorarius in Bayle's Dictionnaire historique et critique. The pages written by the philosopher of Rotterdam rightfully include this Renaissance text within the post-Cartesian debate on animal-machines and within the context of Leibniz's critical discussions on pre-established harmony.

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Authors & Contributors
Gensini, Stefano
Castel-Branco, Nuno
De Lucca, Jean-Paul
Baldassarri, Fabrizio
Labellarte, Alberto
Abou-Nemeh, Samar Catherine
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Philosophy
Animals
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Zoology
Medicine
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Early modern
18th century
Places
Europe
Italy
France
Toulouse (France)
Florence (Italy)
Netherlands
Institutions
Académie des Sciences, Paris
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